On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Herman Van Keer (softouch) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did something stupid in a moment of stress and lack of time...
> (now I have more stress and less time -left- ;-) )
>
> Trying to deal with netscap's dying at irregular intervals, I wanted to
> install the rpm from rpmfind.net (version 7).
> I had some failing dependencies - one was rpm version 3.03.
>
> And then in that insane moment i typed rpm -e rpm - which removes the
> old version and left nothing to rpm the new rpm....
> (one moment of silent for such a stupid move ;-) )
>
> I downloaded source and recompiled rpm -working fine BUT off course the
> database is gone.
> Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
> the database up to date?
>
> Thanks
> Herman
What version did you originaly have, it shouldn't have removed the files
from /var/lib/rpm/ as rpm doesn't own them.
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