on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:09:17AM -0800, James Vahn (jvahn@short.circuit.com) wrote:
> How is it possible to rebuild the status file other than by using one
> of the 3 month old "yesterday.gz" backups? A filesystem crash caused
> the inclusion of binary crud into the current and last two versions. It
> would be preferable to generate new, rather than recycle an old file.
/var/backups
You might also check the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list.
And, hint:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
Peace.
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