Hi there, Does anyone know a quick way in yum or rpm to reinstall all currently installed rpm's - ie: Some files have been deleted but you don't know which ones.. So you just want to force a reinstall of all currently installed. I have been using: Rpm -Va | grep missing >> missing.log And then more missing.log Rpm -q -whatprovides /path/to/file And then Rpm -Uvh --force ftp://mirror/path/file But it's a slow and painful process. It's on a CentOS 4.4 machine. JC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070314/132789e8/attachment.html>
Justin Cataldo wrote:> Hi there, > > Does anyone know a quick way in yum or rpm to reinstall all currently > installed rpm's - ie: Some files have been deleted but you don't know which > ones.. So you just want to force a reinstall of all currently installed. > > I have been using: > > Rpm -Va | grep missing >> missing.log > > And then more missing.log > > Rpm -q -whatprovides /path/to/file > > And then > > Rpm -Uvh --force ftp://mirror/path/file > > But it's a slow and painful process. It's on a CentOS 4.4 machine.rpm -qa | while read p ; do yum <whatever> $p ; done rpm -qa | xargs yum <whatever> Replace <whatever> with whatever it takes to force yum to reinstall. Once you get it started, go have a good long nap:-) Then, inspect all your config file:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list
Justin Cataldo spake the following on 3/13/2007 7:56 PM:> Hi there, > > Does anyone know a quick way in yum or rpm to reinstall all currently > installed rpm's - ie: Some files have been deleted but you don't know > which ones.. So you just want to force a reinstall of all currently > installed. > > I have been using: > > Rpm -Va | grep missing >> missing.log > > And then more missing.log > > Rpm -q -whatprovides /path/to/file > > And then > > Rpm -Uvh --force ftp://mirror/path/file > > But it's a slow and painful process. It's on a CentOS 4.4 machine. > > JCPersonally, if a system is that hosed, I would go with the backup-reinstall-restore route. But I am a masochist. ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!