repairing an installed RPM

[James Wilkinson]

Dave Mitchell wrote:
> If I have an installed RPM, and one or more of its installed files have
> been deleted or corrupted, what's the best way to repair it?
> 
> The only way I've found is
> 
>     rpm -e --nodeps foo.rpm
>     rpm -i foo.rpm
> 
> which seems a bit clunky. Is there any way that only updates the damaged
> files?

rpm -F --oldpackage foo.rpm

Hope this helps,

James.
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