Forcing RPM to reinstall broken packages

[Dan Coutu]

bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, at 3:25pm, coutu at snowy-owl.com wrote:
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>>I figure it may be due to crappy media (burned from online iso's) and so
>>did an RPM --verify --all and sure enough I see some problems (like
>>missing files, bad MD5 checksums, etc.)
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>  Those don't necessarily indicate problems.
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>  Indeed, for configuration files and the like, they are normal.
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>  I had thought that RPM verified a package's checksum before installing it,
>but I can't find documentation to back that up, and don't have time to look
>further, right now.
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Well, it certainly does verify the checksums before installing. And the 
stupid graphic installation process, which must use the stupid new 
redhat-config-packages thing, merrily reports the errors to stdout and 
keeps on going! I noticed this only when I ran the thing from the 
command line and was stunned to see a LOT of errors showing up in my 
terminal window! Bad software, bad! No biscuit for you!

Dan

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