Re: apt-get update results in "Faulty Tree"
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:36:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> On a lark, I looked in /var/lib/dpkg, and found a couple of files with
> "-old" on the end. So I backed up "available" and "status" and then
> copied the "-old" versions of those files to the corresponding names,
> and now it seems the problem is fixed.
>
> Have I fixed the problem, or have I just really shot myself without
> knowing it yet?
Corrupt available/status files could trigger that kind of bug, so it's
probably a sensible enough thing to do ...
It might be interesting to see diffs between the old and new versions.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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