Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-02-06 at 11:16 -0000, Brian Green wrote:
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Checking the results of the query I note that an application (specifically: BitTorrent) that I installed using YaST2 some three+ days ago, from a SuSE mirror site, shows as being installed yesterday (build date unchanged: 13/09/05).
Any comments on this ...
Dunno... but you could check to see if the rpm database is corrupt. I don't remember how and have no time left, so you look up the man page ;-)
Otherwise, something made an automatic update, perhaps.
Carlos, Ouch! But, thanks for the starter ... Checked the 'rpm database' using 'rpm -V -a' and got 14,409 potentially compromised packages! Of these 14,338 where, allegedly, 'missing' packages/dependencies, 19 were configuration files (so they can be ignored ...?), but only (!) 493 had some problem with the Modification Time (but not, apparently, BitTorrent, or it's dependencies, as it didn't appear in the list). None of the packages listed were obvious candidates for possible installation problems even if I discounted as relevant a large number of the entries as they appear to relate to cups and hplip - whilst printing and scanning (on my all-in-one) are working fine. So, back to Google, ... Cheers Brian Brian