[Yum] Suggested feature - fix corrupted rpms

[Joshua Jensen]

This can't be a good idea... is the RPM "corrupt" when I change the
config file? :-)

Joshua

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:30:39AM -0800, Konstantin Kudin wrote:
>  Hi there,
> 
>  Recently I had some files on the system disk disappear due to bad
> blocks. The rpm database, on the other hand, was OK. So by hand I
> downloaded the packages that were corrupted, and upgraded them (rpm
> -Uvh --force $packagename).
> 
>  It would be nice to have an option in yum to check for corrupted
> installed packages, and upgrade them to whatever version is available
> from the repository. The unavailable packages could be printed out as a
> list for user to fix manually from other sources.
> 
>  More specifically, "rpm -aq" produces the list of all packages, "rpm
> -V $packagename" tells if a given package is OK. So yum could carry out
> this procedure for each installed package, and upgrade it if it is
> corrupted. Of course, this assumes that yum itself can function.
> 
>  Konstantin
>   
> 
> 
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