-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 August 2002 03:41 pm, Hal Burgiss wrote: > 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?
> 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. This won't help the origional poster, since he lost /var, and even if /var was available log rotation would have removed the needed data by now, but this may help others: You should have the file /var/log/rpmpkgs available. That file contains a complete list of every rpm installed on the system. Using the data in that file, it should be possible to then run: rpm -ivh --justdb for each package in listed in the file. It's still a lot of work, and obviously you need to have the package.rpm available, but it's better than nothing. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1awaMACgkQn/07WoAb/SslfACfcxidI+GN/hLjezPP1MpRRkaS 5zIAnRchaAlFwFZx+WdxV4fUQb+oX5TT =6SSx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
