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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:36:07AM -0800, Randy Arnold wrote:
> >
> > Now, for some reason my RPM database is gone.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> If you have backups of /var/lib/rpm, restore them. If not, you've got 2
> basic choices, both ugly:
> 1. Find every file on the system and attempt to determine which package
> they came from. Then rpm -ivh --justdb <package>. If you registered
> and updated via RHN, then go to the web site and extract the package
> list. That will save you a *lot* of work. If you've done an up2date -p
> since you corrupted your database, you've dug yourself deeper in a hole.
>
> 2. Do a fresh install.
>
> If you have an accurate package list from RHN or your backups, use
> option 1. If you don't, use option 2.
If you have an accurate package list, then you don't have to go through
the pain of finding the packages for all files. Just "rpm -ivh --justdb
<package> for each of the packages.
One of the weekly cron jobs dumps the results of "rpm -qa" to
/var/log/rpmpkgs. That might be a place to start, but you'll need to know
what you've upgraded since the last dump.
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