Re: Really unhappy with one dselect behavior...
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 05:16:51PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Running dselect is (I find) the best way to figure out which new
> packages I might want, so I run it now and then and go through the
> list of new packages. However, several times now, I've accidentally
> hit return before I was finished going through the list (sometimes
> because I got a little confused, and sometimes just inadvertently).
>
> The big problem is that when you accidentally do hit return, there's
> *no* way to recover from the mistake. The state information about
> which packages are new is immediately chunked.
Grumble, curse, grumble.
mv /var/lib/dpkg/status{-old,}
Andrew
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