Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:29:00AM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> Since I can scroll all the way to the bottom before I get wierdness, I
> tried to copy the file, it appears I got about half of it. I have
> /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. What do I do, just rename it? After fsck,
> of course?
/var/lib/dpkg/status-old should just be an old copy of
/var/lib/dpkg/status, so yes. You may have some remaining weirdness
depending on how out of date it is, but it'll almost certainly be better
than what you have at the moment ...
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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