James Olin Oden wrote:
Yes, but won't I need the actual rpm files before I can do that?
Maybe I wasn't very clear on this, but the way I see it, the main
problem is not to find out what rpm commands to use, but to obtain the
files they want as input. I haven't kept copies of everything I've
downloaded, and the packages came from various different sources
(although I generally take add-ons from large repositories like Fedora
Extras or Freshrpms) so finding the correct version of each and every
rpm file looks like lot of work ;-(
Yes you need the actual rpms. The problem is even if you generated a
header based on the NVRA that is in the file you have you would not
have the list of files, the Epoch, the provides and requires and
various other bits of metadata. So the only sure way of dealing with
this is to find the actual original rpms.
Yeah, I thought so. I was of hoping that e.g. yum might help me in the
process, though - but it seems like it doesn't quite have the
functionality needed.
So I guess the answer is to do some shell script hacking... I have now
recovered most of the database using the script attached. - Actually,
I've ran this several times, whith adjustments to the repository list on
the way, and doing 'rpm --initdb' the first time around. The list of
distros was mainly taken from my yum setup.
Sorry...james
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#!/bin/sh
releasever=3
basearch=i386
REPOS="/var/cache/yum/*/packages/ /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/*\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/Fedora/RPMS\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/\
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/RPMS\
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/deps/RPMS\
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/gst/RPMS\
http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/apt/fc$releasever/RPMS.stable\
http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/apt/all/RPMS.stable\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/$basearch/os/Fedora/RPMS\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/$basearch/\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/os/Fedora/RPMS\
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/$basearch/\
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/$basearch/RPMS.freshrpms/\
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/$basearch/RPMS.os/\
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/$basearch/RPMS.updates/
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/$basearch/RPMS.freshrpms/\
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/$basearch/RPMS.os/\
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/$basearch/RPMS.updates";
# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpm --initdb
cat $1 | while read rpm
do
pkg=`basename $rpm .rpm`
if ! rpm -q $pkg > /dev/null 2>&1
then
echo $rpm
for repo in $REPOS
do
rpm -i --justdb --force --nodeps $repo/$rpm 2> /dev/null && break
done
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo "$rpm not found ;-("
fi
fi
done
