On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:25:35PM -0500, whitroth wrote: > Hi. > > Runnig 6.2 on my firewall, no X, went to apply patches, etc, and > wanted to start using up2date...and realized that when my second > hard drive crashed, months ago, taking *all* of /var with it, that > the rpm database is gone. > > So, short of re-installing RH, is there any way to recreate it? > > Yes, I've done initdb, and rebuilddb, which give me a lovely empty db....
Having been through something similar a while back, my conclusion is 'no, there is no easy way out'. So now I back up all the /var/lib/rmp stuff :) I didn't go the re-install route, since I had a lot of non-RH packages, and wasn't sure I could remember those. So what I did, re-install all the beefy stuff (glibc, gcc*, etc), and anything obvious off the CD (man pages, init scripts, etc). Factor in updates and do those first. For me this got maybe 80-90% of it back. Then wrote a short script to 'rpm -qf' every file on the system, and grepped for those that it failed on (sorted and uniq'd), and then checked all those. Some were obvious, some not. Maybe there is a quicker/slicker way that somebody knows about now. If its a stock install, re-install would be faster. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
