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That is all it did.
Of course to simplify the editing of this script, it calls other scripts that do most of the work,
and it's still a “work in progress”(wip). It has some text to put up on the screen to give some
feedback to the user of what stage the process is up to, and although some of them are duplicated in
the other scrips, it works quite well (IMHO).
Now with all of that it only takes a second to convert the list and I can enjoy my time doing
what ever else I like.
I hope someone else finds this helpful, cheers and kind regards, Glenn (GlennsPref@gmail.com)
Scripts with explanations....
The first was a backup script which only collected the downloaded rpms from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms to a directory safe within /home/glenn/....I have many partitions, don't know
why, Maybe just because
How to save your rpm's for future reuse in Mandriva. By Glenn Waller 28th April 2010.
Why did I decide to reuse the downloaded rpm's (Redhat Package Management)?
To save time, connectivity problems (Internet) Bandwidth and embarrassment after I broke the system. I have added my scripts with explanations to the end of this paper but they are customised for my system, so read and edit them before trying to use them. ;-)
How I started reusing the saved rpm's.
ref. http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/56588
How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive
By Shawn Hermans on August 28, 2006 (8:00:00 AM)
ref. http://www.cgsecurity.org
PhotoRec 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
The majority of the problem libraries were version labels, except one that I found had a replacement with a new name, so effectively these libs just needed renaming to allow the program EasyTag to work. I've left the required lines uncommented(#). You will need root access to change these files. I thought about linking the files rather than copying them with new names and decided that at the rate of development with Mandriva and GNU/Linux
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