Restoring rpm packages

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:48:46PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> In any case, what I would like to do is to verify all the rpm packages
> on the system, and to re-install any that are damaged.
> Is that possible?
> If it is, is there any script that would simplify the task?

Try 'rpm -Va', to verify all installed packages. (Look at the rpm man page
to see what the resulting codes mean.) You'll get some "false positives"
from config files, etc., which change in the course of normal events.

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