Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
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.
Thanks Jim,
I followed your suggestions and got almost all of the packages back into
rpmdb. I made a diff between the old rpmpkgs and the almost empty rpmdb,
edited it and removed the common files, then fed it to yum. The result:
[ovidiu@prometheus ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
1002
Mission accomplished.
Thanks again to all.
I'm glad that the idea helped you get back the rpm database entries.
Thanks for reporting back. I hope I never have a problem that needs 900
plus entries reclaimed. I'm glad the diff between the two files was the
solution.
Jim
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