Restoring rpm packages

[Timothy Murphy]

My Sony C1VFK Picturebook laptop is fairly sick,
due I think to a loose connection.
I have changed the hard disk, and the problem persists.
The effect is that I have had fairly bad file-system corruption
(where re-booting obliges one to enter superuser mode and run e2fsck).

In any case, what I would like to do is to verify all the rpm packages
on the system, and to re-install any that are damaged.
Is that possible?
If it is, is there any script that would simplify the task?

I should say that I am running Fedora 3, with kernel 2.6.11 .
I realise verifying all the rpm packages
(I assume the list in /var/log/rpmpkgs is complete?)
will take some time -
I would run it overnight.
I'm not quite clear if there is anything one can do
if a problem appears apart from "rpm -Uvh --force ...".

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

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Timothy Murphy  
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