On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:08:42AM -0400, William L. Maltby enlightened us: > Having been around (but nevertheless still ignorant of RPM) when RPM > suffered the indignity of having its DBM upgraded, 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. However, my ardor may be misplaced > due to my relative ignorance about these things. My thinking is that I > can use that list, with a small amount of scripting and/or manual > editing, to recover the rpmdb if I need to. I could also make a list > from RPM itself, but I like the "trust but verify" philosophy that is > satisfied by getting a list from a different source (hmmm... is *that* > source trustworthy? ;-). > 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. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263