[CentOS] RPM: any better way to reinstall only certain files?

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 19:29:10 UTC 2006


On 7/11/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:54 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:41 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > > On 7/11/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > My former primary boot disk had some bad spots appear awhile back.
> > > > Damage, per rpm --verify, seems to be predominately in loss of reference
> > > > files in /usr/share/doc and such as that.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> >
> > > Depending on the corruption you've got, rpm -Fvh might be what you
> > > want. Freshen may solve some of your dilemma.

rpm also has a  --replacefiles


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