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Re: [opensuse-factory] Recovering from accidentally removing /var/lib/rpm/Packages
  • From: Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:22:44 +0100
  • Message-id: <48942764.4050204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2008-08-02 at 00:58 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:

Tried "rpm --rebuilddb, "rpm --initdb". There was a directory named
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.8774 which I also tried renaming to /var/lib/rpm.

On a normal system there are backups, in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb/.

- -- Cheers,

Thanks, they are all there.
Regards
Sid.
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