On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:49, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 02 January 2003 07:37 pm, Cliff Wells wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > > > If you look in /var/log/rpmpkgs, you should have a complete list of > > > all the packages instaled on your system as of 4:00 AM today. If you > > > have the install CD's, you have access to most of the packages you > > > have installed. If you've kept the updated packages around as well, > > > you're in excellent shape. > > > > Unfortunately I don't. I generally use apt-get to install new packages > > which means no local copies. However /var/log/rpmpkgs is interesting > > and I can see how I might use that to get somewhere. > > Good, save a good copy while you can. It gets overwritten daily > (/etc/cron.daily/rpm), and rotated weekly. You might want to copy > /var/log/rpmpkgs.1 someplace safe, since /var/log/rpmpkgs probably got > overwritten this morning.
Yep. Did exactly that (yesterday, that is). > > > Hm. Getting a timeout trying to connect, I'll try back in a little bit, > > but I can guess the logic of this fairly easily so maybe I can whip up > > something equivalent if all else fails. > > Looking at your mail headers and my firewall log, I think I found the > connection problem. Your address space is within a formerly reserved > range. (or so says http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space) > > It appears it was allocated last August and I missed it. My firewall > objected to what it saw as an invalid address. Should be fixed now, > please let me know if that's not the case. I can always mail you the > script if you like. Got it. Thanks. > > I suppose I could use apt-get --download-only to retrieve the packages > > prior to running the script. > > Just for the record, there were a few mentions in bugzilla about the rpm > hangs being more common for apt users. For one: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77988 Interesting. I hope this isn't the case as apt is an excellent tool (especially given the number of rpm-apt repositories sprouting up - downloaded a DVD-rip^H^H^Harchiving tool the other day with a single command - it would have normally required finding and installing around 7 or 8 rpms - provided I could have found the correct versions). > > Thanks, I'm not going to get to it today (the system is running fine a > > the moment and I'm swamped) but I'll post a followup once I've been > > through it. > > Good luck. Again, if you can't get the script, please let me know. Thanks a lot. -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308
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