On Tuesday 15 January 2002 02:23 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > Mark D'voo wrote: > > > I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with > > > reiserfs > > > > Got a good backup? > > That's your only hope. > > One other possible option is to use RPM to replace the files that were > lost. On my system there are only a few RPMs that place files in > /usr/local/share. > > You could do an rpm -qa to get a list of all files, use this list to > create a database of files owned by package, then look through the > database for the package name. E.g. > > rpm -qa > outfile > for item in `cat outfile` > do > rpm -ql $item >$item.packagelist > done > > grep /usr/local/share *.packagelist > > This will return the packages that place files in /usr/local/share. > Using those package names: > > rpm --replacepkgs -ivh name_of_package > > > Again, not many of the RPM packages on my system have files in that > directory.
i dont' use rpms, they are the devil, I have a backup of all the source, but I must rebuild it :(, guess i'll be busy compiling for the next couple hours mark -- 2:58pm up 6:59, 3 users, load average: 3.61, 1.73, 1.02
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