Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)
Mike A. Harris
mharris at mharris.ca
Fri Feb 24 10:26:47 UTC 2006
Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 01:10am, n0dalus wrote:
>
>>On 2/23/06, Igor Jagec <igorm5 at vip.hr> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>Essentially, after installing livna's packages instead, you would need
>>to do an rpm -Va on various packages to ensure that the files hadn't
>>been replaced (If they have, reinstall those packages).
>
>
> Not to nit-pick, but running rpm -Va will check *all* packages; that's what
> the -a switch does. Same for rpm -qa listing all packages. Of course, you
> can also do:
>
> rpm -qa kernel*
>
> to see all packages that begin with "kernel". If you want to verify only
> certain packages with rpm, run:
>
> rpm -V package1 package2 package3
>
> BTW: rpm -Va will take a long time to run.
Users who are technically inclined enough to optimize the rpm verify
to a subset of all packages that just encompass all X packages, are
of course free to do so. :o)
rpm -Va gets them all, without having to have a big explanation, or
provide a list of all of the relevent packages however.
--
Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
Proud Canadian.
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