Re: how to get dpkg to work from scratch?

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:38:20PM -0500, Chris Gorman wrote:
> 
> In order to get around the dependencies use the --force-depends switch 
> with dpkg which will turn all dependency errors into warnings.
> 
> dpkg -i --force-depends somepackage.deb
> 
> I'm not sure if this will fix the problem with dpkg not finding updates, 
> which is a directory on my system ( /var/lib/dpkg/updates/ ) .

I have had no problems like that, only that it refused to unpack
base-files or something due to armv5tel not maching architecture arm
even though that is what I said I wanted.  Apparently some things
require the map file be correct in debootstrap.  Once the system is
installed it never seems to care what the uname -m says.

Len Sorensen