On Thu, 19 May 2011, Jeff Johnson wrote:
... yes. Essentially just put your backed up copies in place and do rpm --rebuilddb -vv rpm -qa to check that your backup is usable and sane.
Thanks for that info Jeff - this is a GREAT help and much appreciated. I have turned off any overnight updates with cron, so my system should stay the same while I try to fix the RPM database.
Do I need to delete any of the old files in /var/lib/rpm/ first, or just overwrite the old Packages file with my newer version ?
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