Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
jludwig wrote:
I gave this advice for recovery before and may well work for you.
What I suggested; --->First read the man and info pages for these
commands so you <---
--->understand what is being done (if you already don't ).<----
I *do* understand what it's being done.
You can force updates and installs
->rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps filename.rpm
I don't think you've read my question too carefully. I have the list of
the previuosly installed rpms (/var/log/rpmpkgs), I know what should I
do with it, but I don't have the rpm files in themselves and mirroring
8+ repos locally is not very appealing. Please read my question again.
Any help would be most welcome.
If you know what the missing 900 packages are, I believe enabling the 8
repos and choosing install instead of upgrade might be your best answer
when going through the list you have. I believe using --force is not needed.
Yum is a dep solver and should pull in the missing from the rpm database
files again. Ii will not know the packages are not installed so will
overwrite your files for non-configuration files. For configuration
files, it will make an .rpmnew or similar named file.
Looking at /var/log/rpmpkgs the listings are on one line at a time. What
you could do is run an rpm -qa |sort >~/my-100.rpms and compare them to
the log and manually removing the missed entries or get a diff between
the log and the file that you generated and install the differences file
feeding it to yum install.
This is an idea that I think will work for you. I do not know the
specifics if uniq or diff would be your best option to create the
missing 900 list. There are some pretty crafty people on the list who
could explain how to get you your 900 database entries back if by
needing to install alll the packages again, which I'd personally do or
to just reclaim the db entries as you suggested. The mirrors might be
happier if you could just pull down the rpm database entries again.
I hope this spawns some solutions for you.
Jim
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An rpm database is a terrible thing to waste.
