RPM database

[Jason Dixon]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

> I have a little situation here... My raid failed and I lost the /var
> directory , among others.. I managed to make the system start again ,
> but I need to update it (the / and /boot partitions were raid 1 , but
> they werent in sync , dont ask me why..) , because the latest kernel I
> have is 2149... but I can update , because the rpm db is gone.. I cant
> rebuild the rpmdb , because it tries to use /var/lib/rpm/Packages ,
> which is gone also...
> Any ideas on how to rebuild the db?
> (I cant reinstall the system now.. lots of things depend on this 
> machine
> and I need to do some things before reinstalling it)

Just restore from your backups, then rpm --rebuilddb.

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
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