The yum logs and the packages file are very different. The rpm packages file is actually a Berkeley database file. The yum log is more when stuff got added and deleted and the rpm database is what you currently have. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Saurabh Barve Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:23 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Accidentally deleted contents of /var/lib/ (Dale Sykora) Saurabh Barve wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am running FC2. I accidentally deleted the entire contents of my >> /var/lib/ directory. As a result, rpm -qa shows up nothing. Also, the >>>>Saurabh, >>>> You might be able to get a pkg list from /var/log/yum.log or >>>>/var/log/rpmpkgs and then update/reinstall these packages. I'm not >>>>sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try. >>>>Thanks, >>>>Dale Hi, I copied over the entire /var/lib directory from another machine that was configured like this machine. I then did 'rpm --rebuilddb'. I then got a whole list of packages with 'rpm -qa'. I was also able to get my partitions exported using nfs. However, I don't know if the rpm database has been restored to its original self. I did a diff between /var/lib/rpm/Packages and /var/log/yum.log, and they differ. Am I right in comparing the two? I also ran 'up2date --update' and 'yum update' just in case, and while up2date didn't update anything, yum returned one update, which I thought normal (it updated ethereal). Is there anything else I need to do to bring the system back in its original condition? Maybe reboot it? Thanks for all the help so far. Saurabh.
