Re: AMD64: etch and uploads

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> I'm assuming you want this for your normal system and not for a build
> chroot. Always build packages for upload in a clean environment one
> last time before upload.
>
> So here we go, way 2 (from memory):
>
> # Mark all old packages
> mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status~
> sed 's/Status:/Unofficial: yes\nStatus:/' </var/lib/dpkg/status~ >/var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> # reinstall
> apt-get clean
> dpkg --get-selections |grep -v deinstall | sed -e 's/\t.*//' \
> | xargs -n1 apt-get --reinstall install
>
> # check output for obsolete or missing packages
> # optimaly there should be none
> grep-dctrl -P Unofficial yes -s Package,Version /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thanks for the tip.

BTW, are there some risks for it to be destructive? ;-P

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Jérôme Marant