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: > > <snip> 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. -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060707/5f495f8d/attachment-0005.sig>