On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
> I have a system that was originally installed with RHEL 3 x86_64, and
> I've since 'updated' it to CentOS 3 via installing yum and
> centos-release, then running a yum update.
>
> is there any way I can force -all- installed packages to be replaced
> with their centos analogs just to be sure its all consistent?
When using apt-get you can do:
apt-get install --reinstall $(rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | grep -v gpg-pubkey)
it requires that you have all packages available from repositories. If not
you will have to exclude those packages too (using grep -v).
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