Re: [expert] uninstalled rpm

[Herman Van Keer (softouch)]

Sylvain Vignaud wrote:

> > Try rpm --rebuilddb
> Useless. When you erased rpm, the database seems to have been erased
> too. So there's no rpm information on your disk anymore. You are to
> reinstall your rpm in order to get back the database and not to have
> dependancies problem when installing new rpm.

this makes sense, and was the kind of thing I was afraid for.
Now then my quesion:
Is there a utility to search what is on the disk and recreates the database or
do I have to 'reinstall' all the needed packages - doing that would recreate
the database (piece by piece)?

Thanks,
Herman