wld wrote:
> I a afraid that after
> rpm --initdb
> his rpm database is empty... From man rpm
>
> REBUILD DATABASE OPTIONS
> The general form of an rpm rebuild database command is
>
> rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb} [-v] [--dbpath DIRECTORY] [--root
> DIRECTORY]
>
> Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to
> rebuild the
> database indices from the installed package headers.
>
> The only way to get a list of installed packages I know of is
> to look into the file /var/log/rpmpkgs , generated every night by cron.
> Then OP could try restore his rpm database by hand, using --justdb
> option of rpm command.
>
The only problem with that is that RPM needs the .rpm file to do it.
If it were not for that, and the dependency problems, you could do
something like:
for i in $(cat /var/log/rpmpkgs) ; do rpm -ivh --justdb $i ; done
You could probably get most of them restored by changing to the
Fedora/RPMS directory on the DVD image, and running:
for i in $(cat /var/log/rpmpkgs) ; do rpm -ivh --justdb --nodeps $i
; done
You might have to use the --force option instead of the --nodeps
option, but I would try it with --nodeps first. You could then use
yum to re-install the ones that are updates, or just download them
and use rpm to update the database from the files.
Mikkel
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