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

Tue Jul 11 17:41:54 UTC 2006
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

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.
>
> Being the type that wastes my own time before wasting that of others, I
> did a semi-careful perusal of the rpm man pages. Thought the --files or
> some such might offer a way ought. IIUC, nope! Seems that I can't select
> specific files. It looks like I could do a new install in a new root
> (chrooted) and then copy the files out, but I was already aware of an
> apparently easier way I had used years ago, rpm2cpio (easier because I
> can use the verify output list, slightly edited and reduced, to select
> the desired files.
>
> Thought "Well, it probably can do what I want, I just missed it. Maybe
> tutorials, HOWTOs, etc. will give the answer". So, using the TOC of each
> of these, I probed in vain (in that vein, it was fruitless but not
> painless :-).

Depending on the corruption you've got, rpm -Fvh might be what you
want. Freshen may solve some of your dilemma.


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