I have a little situation here... My raid failed and I lost the /var
directory , among others.. I managed to make the system start again ,
but I need to update it (the / and /boot partitions were raid 1 , but
they werent in sync , dont ask me why..) , because the latest kernel I
have is 2149... but I can update , because the rpm db is gone.. I cant
rebuild the rpmdb , because it tries to use /var/lib/rpm/Packages ,
which is gone also... Any ideas on how to rebuild the db?
(I cant reinstall the system now.. lots of things depend on this machine
and I need to do some things before reinstalling it)
/var/lib/rpm/Packages is installed as part of the 'rpm' rpm.
If you grab the .src.rpm you should be able to extract the file and re-install it manually. It also -might- work to run "rpm -i --force rpm-*.rpm".
If the db is completely gone, you'll probably need to start by creating one: "rpm --initdb". At that point you might be able to re-install your rpms with "--justdb" (if all their pieces are still in place) or "--force" (if you want the files physically reinstalled).
I've never had to try to rebuild /var from scratch, so I can't really say what will and won't work.
