From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) Description of problem: For any of a number of reasons, a package instilation may need to be redone. In particular, some files in a package may have been deleted or corrupted. (The notorious 'rm -rR /' is a good example of this.) Assuming the RPM database has survived and you have access to a package distribution, it should be fairly easy to verify which files are missing or corrupt and reinstall them. The current implementation makes locating the missing/corrupted file possible, but it is NOT easy to do the update. Either add a 'fixit' option to 'verify' mode, or add a seperate 'fixit' mode. Interactive confirmation and batch mode would be useful options. On the other hand, if this already exists, I couldn't find anything on the subject in the documentation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rm -fR / 2.^C (quickly!) 3.rpm -Va (or whatever...) Now what do you do? Actual Results: You're SOL and probably out on the street looking for a new job. Expected Results: 4.mount /mnt/cdrom 5./mnt/cdrom/.../rpm -Va --fixit -interactive Additional info: This would be useful wien a machine has had a security compromise.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61373 ***
Sorry, browser trouble...
Happens to me all the time, bugzilla has some (ahem) confusing deficiencies :-)