CentOS - Dec 2007 - re-installing a package without removing it?

Hello,

I've just noticed that the file /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk, which
belongs to package drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos, is missing from one of my
test machines:

# rpm --verify drbd
S.5....T c /etc/drbd.conf
missing     /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk

I'm looking at this as an opporunity to learn something about RPM
which bugged me for a while - in Debian, aptitude and apt-get provide
options to re-install existing package without removing it.

If I understand this correctly, then "rpm -i --force
drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos.rpm" would re-install the package. Is this
correct?

The rpm solution would require me to find and manually download the
rpm file. Is there a way to do this through yum?

Thanks,

--Amos

Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just noticed that the file /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk, which
> belongs to package drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos, is missing from one of my
> test machines:
> 
> # rpm --verify drbd
> S.5....T c /etc/drbd.conf
> missing     /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk
> 
> I'm looking at this as an opporunity to learn something about RPM
> which bugged me for a while - in Debian, aptitude and apt-get provide
> options to re-install existing package without removing it.
> 
> If I understand this correctly, then "rpm -i --force
> drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos.rpm" would re-install the package. Is this
> correct?
> 
> The rpm solution would require me to find and manually download the
> rpm file. Is there a way to do this through yum?
you can always "yum install synaptic" and do your stuff with 
synaptic/apt (it's in rpmforge)
that's the only thing I ever use yum for ;-)

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 11:54 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> I'm looking at this as an opporunity to learn something about RPM
> which bugged me for a while - in Debian, aptitude and apt-get provide
> options to re-install existing package without removing it.
> 
> If I understand this correctly, then "rpm -i --force
> drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos.rpm" would re-install the package. Is this
> correct?
> 
> The rpm solution would require me to find and manually download the
> rpm file. Is there a way to do this through yum?
Not as described, although you can use yumdownloader in yum-utils to
pull down the package, and a plugin can be written for yum that allows
this.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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