Fixed, yet broken

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Duane Morin wrote:

> Interesting side effetc -- when I go into System Update (Ximian), it
> tells me that the only packages I have installed are glibc and 
> glic-common.  When I asked it to verify dependencies it added basesystem
> and a couple of others.  But it's obviously lost track of everything on
> my system.
> 
> Anybody got a good way to tell ximian to go through and look at 
> everything I already have?  Or is that info gone, ya think?

I'm not sure, but I think this might be an RPM problem rather than a 
Ximian one.

If you do an rpm -qa, does it list a large number of packages, or just the 
same ones as Ximian?

If it's just the same few, try running "rpm --rebuilddb"

--
Greg