Re: [REDHAT] Re: DO NOT sysadmin your box after midnight!

["Joshua M. Schmidlkofer" <menion srci iwpsd org>]

The other thing is that Redhat 7.1 has an RPM out there that has a database 
from what would be a full install.  I.e. if you installed everything.   I 
accidentally used it once.   Nothing too horrible happened, but you could 
probably get away with it.

js



On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:25:29AM -0400, 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
> >
> > Hosed, AFAIK. Been there once, when I lost a partition. I guess
> > re-install is one option. What I did, was get the CD's out, install
> > all the biggies: glibc*, X*, gcc*, and anything you recognize :)
> >
> > Then I wrote a script (details now forgotten), to check all files
> > in the key directories (/bin, /usr, /lib, etc), against the rpm contents
> > on the CD (rpm -qpl) -- one at a time, and generated a list of rpms to
> > be installed from that. A couple of caveats...if you've done the
> > updates, then you should substitute those for the ones on the CD(s).
> > Also, if you've installed any non-stock packages, hopefully you have a
> > list, or can remember them. Since my adventure, these all go in
> > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS now. I wound up with a very short list of stuff,
> > I had no idea what it was. But 99% got taken care of.
>
> I do fairly regular backups of selected files, but /var/lib/rpm didn't
> make it to the list (it will now!!!).  Part of my back up does an rpm -qa
> and rmp -qia to two separate files.  So I have a complete list of rpms
> that were installed as of last month.
>
> I noticed an rpm option "--justdb" that says it will just update the
> database and not the filesystem.  So let's say I wrote a little script
> that reads in my rpm -qa list and does a
>
> rpm --nodeps --justdb \
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/$RPMNAME
>
> for each line.  Should that work for any packages that I haven't updated
> since the install?  Then I could look for the rest in the updates
> directory, etc.  Whatya think?
>
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