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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:45:08 +1030

Boo-Hoo! Gnome took my packages.rpm

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jake Hawkes wrote:

> my favourite command is:
> rpm -qa | sort > installed_rpms

Super - I got a nice sorted list. 
Unfortunately rpm -qia |sort > myprogs gave a list sorted sentence by
sentence, which wasn't quite what I had in mind!

> > Q.  Where does rpm -qip get its data from?
> there are rpm databases in /var/lib that contain all the info used by
> rpm, included required by and provides.

I wish you hadn't told me!  (Boo-Hoo!)
I visited /var/lib/rpm and tried to look at packages.rpm.  At that point the
gnome file manager crashed and converted packages.rpm to a zero-length file.
The file doesn't appear to be on the RH6.2 disk.
Is there any way I can get packages.rpm back?  Is it important, anyway?

-- 
Regards,
Brian

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Dr Brian Astill  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education
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