On Tue 15 Mar 2005 00:36, Matthew Miller wrote: > > In any case, what I would like to do is to verify all the rpm packages > > on the system, and to re-install any that are damaged. > > Is that possible? > > If it is, is there any script that would simplify the task? > > Try 'rpm -Va', to verify all installed packages. (Look at the rpm man page > to see what the resulting codes mean.) You'll get some "false positives" > from config files, etc., which change in the course of normal events. Thanks for your response. I knew of the "rpm -V" command, though it didn't occur to me that one could combine it with "-a"; my idea was just to run through all the packages listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs . However, I ran "rpm -Va" on my laptop last night (capturing the response with script) but I am not really sure how to use the result. For one thing, it would be tedious to find all the packages in which the files mention occur. As I said, it would be nice to have a script "CheckMyPackages" which would just go through installed packages running "rpm -Uvh --force" for those that have been changed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
