Forcing RPM to reinstall broken packages

[Dan Coutu]

mike ledoux wrote:

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>On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 03:25:26PM -0400, Dan Coutu wrote:
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>>So the real question here is: does anyone know a way to get rpm to 
>>reinstall a given package so that corrupted files are replaced with good 
>>ones? I'm concerned that the --force switch may be too much and just 
>>make a worse mess of things.
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>'rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs foo.rpm' does it for me.
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This seems to be doing the trick, thanks!

Dan