Re: (no subject)

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:41:49PM -0300, Felipe Tonioli wrote:
> Hi All ...
> 
> I lost my rpm db, and cant recreate it :/
> 
> I read something about rebuild the db using rpmpkgs file.
> 
> I did the command rpm --justdb -Uvh $(< rpmpkgs). thats wotks but i got a
> lot of file not found.
> 
> any way to rebuild the db using the names only listed in rpmpkgs intead of
> have the files?

You need the files - the rpmpkgs can act as a manifest, so you could prefix it with a url and:

rpm --justdb --noscripts --notriggers -Uvh rpmpkgs

Paul