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:-)

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.

JC

Personally, if a system is that hosed, I would go with the backup-reinstall-restore route. But I am a masochist. ;-P