On 2013-06-14 11:01, Lars Müller wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 02:59:43AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
And afterwards you might be screwed even further. Why? Think you installed fresh packages or updates in between.
I have been bitten by that :-)
a) fresh/ new packages got added
The binaries are still around but you never will get an update as the rpm database doesn't know about.
True, you have to reinstall them, possibly database only rpm command. For this, better have a look at the history zypper file. In my case... I make an automated copy of all the rpms I install with yast/zypper, so I could just run an "rpm install database only *rpm" (correct incantation not searched).
b) packages got updated
In this case you'll get the already applied update again. This very likely will not harm.
No, no harm. Just some time.
But /var/log/zypp/history might be of help. In combination with the timestamp of the file from /var/adm/backup/rpmdb
Yes, indeed, take a note of the date, good idea. The history file is not easily readable, so better reduce the region to look at. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)