[CentOS] Recover rpm DB corrupted by disk failure?

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Check the contents of /var/log/rpmpkgs (and .1 .2 etc).
> Get all packages listed there into a single directory.
> cd to that directory and issue the command:
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> rpm -ivh --noscripts --notriggers --justdb *.rpm
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> to restore your /var/lib/rpm/Packages file

I ended up backing up/removing /var/lib/rpm and then running "rpm
--initdb" before running the --justdb command shown above.  I was able
to pull all but 73 out of more than 1000 packages listed in
/var/log/rpmpkgs from /var/cache/yum plus the CentOS 3.9 CD set.