> > I saw a nice trick in a linux cookbook or server hacks book that > > showed a script that basically audited your system for libraries and > > binaries that were not known about by rpm and yum and built an empty > > rpm that just updated the dependencies and clued in the databases > > about the orphans. "Linux Cookbook" by Carla Schroeder, starting on page 22. There's a "linux cookbook" by another author, accept no substitutes. > When you install a RPM something by yum, it updates the RPM database. Okay, okay, I am being sloppy lumping yum and rpm together. Those guys are database savvy, as opposed to ./configure, make, make install that are database oblivious. Okay, so yum cheats by using rpm, it still will keep things straight. Certainly didn't mean to cast aspersions of rpm, though I find the situations where it is preferable for installs few and far between. But how could I live without rpm -qf and rpm -Vv? Dave
