On Wednesday 16 March 2005 02:58 pm, 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
> partitions that I was exporting to another machine through nfs now show
> up empty on the other machine.
>
> Can I just copy over the contents of /var/lib/ from another FC2 machine?
> Or do I need to reinstall FC2 on this machine? Or is there a simpler way
> to recreate the contents of /var/lib?
>
> Any help or pointers are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Saurabh.
>From what I understand ;
This is a copy of my /var/lib;
ls /var/lib/
alternatives logrotate.status random-seed texmf
dhcp misc rpm up2date
games nfs scrollkeeper xdm
htdig ntp slocate xkb
jack pcmcia smart
The rpm directory is the most problematic since this has data as to what is
installed.
>From man rpm;
Database
/var/lib/rpm/Basenames
/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
/var/lib/rpm/Dirnames
/var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s
/var/lib/rpm/Group
/var/lib/rpm/Installtid
/var/lib/rpm/Name
/var/lib/rpm/Packages
/var/lib/rpm/Providename
/var/lib/rpm/Provideversion
These should/could be rebuilt using 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.
cron will fif the slocate data base.
The rest of the directories could probably be 'hand built' (S.A. mkdir dhcp).
This should hopefully start the process.
--
John H Ludwig
