On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:15 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:08:42AM -0400, William L. Maltby enlightened us:
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Sorry! Forgot what software I was using and sent a previous partially constructed post!
... I have been creating three yum-based lists in /var after each update. The one which I think I love the most is the installed list. ... can use that list, ... to recover the rpmdb if I need to. <snip>
Creating the lists is an excellent idea.
Anyway, all that presumes that recovery from my periodic backups are not reasonable for some reason.
My question: am I missing the mark? Should I really be doing a list only from RPM or is the YUM list (suf/de)ficient?
It's the same list. Yum is merely an interface/dependency resolver on top of the RPM database.
Thanks. That gives me a tad more confidence I'm "Doing The Right Thing" (TM). As the last step of the list creations, there is a diff run between the previous and new list version. Any major unexpected change will (hopefully) catch DB destruction right then and prevent my on-going blissful ignorance morphing into angst.
It also serves to verify that what I think I saw in interactive feedback during the YUM RUN (alliteration alert!) was really what I saw.
Matt
Thanks again.