23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
8:15 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
Check the contents of /var/log/rpmpkgs (and .1 .2 etc). Get all packages listed there into a single directory. cd to that directory and issue the command:
rpm -ivh --noscripts --notriggers --justdb *.rpm
to restore your /var/lib/rpm/Packages file
I ended up backing up/removing /var/lib/rpm and then running "rpm --initdb" before running the --justdb command shown above. I was able to pull all but 73 out of more than 1000 packages listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs from /var/cache/yum plus the CentOS 3.9 CD set.