Re: [vox-tech] help please!

[Peter Jay Salzman <MAPSp@dirac.org>]

that won't work -- remember, i said

        if the list of installed packages was in that directory

he can't reinstall the packages, over-writing the existing files for the
very basic reason that there's no list of the packages!

reinstalling the packages implies you know what packages to reinstall.

he could take a guess as to what was installed or not, but that would leave
orphan config files and executables all over the system that could cause
mondo trouble down the road.

this is the inherent weakness of a strong centralized government...  the
master list of installed rpms is like the registry.  a more benign registry,
but nevertheless, something you don't want to hose!!    :)
 
pete

On Thu 07 Dec 00, 10:40 AM, Henry House said...
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:35:10AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > but also, don't forget that if your system's list of installed packages was
> > in that directory, it's pretty much hopeless.  if that's the case, you'll
> > have to reinstall the OS.   :(    not as traumatic as in windows, but still
> > pretty drastic.  i'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.
> 
> Actually, no. You can reinstall the packages, over-writing the existing
> files, while the os is running. Not really ellegant, but it should work.
> 
> -- 
> Henry House
> OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc



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