On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:29 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 7/11/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:54 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:41 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > Depending on the corruption you've got, rpm -Fvh might be what you > > > > want. Freshen may solve some of your dilemma. > > rpm also has a --replacefiles Gave it a shot, seems to be NG. Here's my actions and results. # rpm --install --verbose --replacefiles \ redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.1.noarch.rpm Preparing packages for installation... package redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.1 is already installed # Did an ls and files not in /usr/share/doc/redhat* # rpm -Fvh --replacefiles redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.1.noarch.rpm # ls -l /usr/share/doc/redhat-logos* ls: /usr/share/doc/redhat-logos*: No such file or directory # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.1 is already installed I'm doing a small script for the rpm2cpio, so keep those ideas coming! Only a few minutes to test the ideas and it might save me some effort (just selecting the rpm files and adding to the script iinput ATM). -- 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/20060711/c821ae2b/attachment-0005.sig>