Re: DO NOT sysadmin your box after midnight!

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, David Kramer wrote:

>
> I was cleaning up another partition that used to be a root partition, but
> is now mounted under /oldroot.
>
> I deleted /var/lib/rpm instead of /oldroot/var/lib/rpm.
>
> I'm hosed, right?  I tried rpm --initdb abd --rebuilddb, but that just
> creates an empty database, right?  There's no way to update or delete
> rpm's, and most adds will complain about dependencies, right?
>
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> DDDD   David Kramer                           http://thekramers.net
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>
Unless you have backups, there is no easy way to restore the database.
I hope someone else will have a better idea, because the best I can
offer you is to copy the database from another system that is set up
close to what you have, and then install and erase packages untill the
database matches what you realy have...

Mikkel
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