Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>> $ rpm -qi fedora-release >> [root@arbol ~]# rpm -qi fedora-release >> package fedora-release is not installed >> How do I recreate that? > > # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs \ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm [root@arbol ~]# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/x86_64/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/x86_64/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by fedora-release-5-5.noarch After I threw in a "--nodeps" it seemed to be happy. > How many packages does this list: > $ rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" > [root@arbol ~]# rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | wc 661 661 19001 I seem to be missing half of the installed rpms. This machine's fraternal twin has twice that number. (While I might have missed installing one or two packages on one or the other machine, this difference is quite high). [root@ancho ~]# rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | wc 1138 1138 33205 Barring any other good ideas, I'm tempted for finish populating the database from the extra entries on the other machine and running some checking script to see if the RPMs were really installed. Sigh. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
