On Mar 29, Christian Schwarz wrote > > AFAIK this is the normal behaviour. I think the "base" package is > automatically created when you install the "base" system. When dpkg > installs other packages these eventually take over some of the files. > > So what about removing the package information about "base" out of dpkg's > database but keeping all files? I mean, not every file has to be included > in a package, or? (Just think of all the files in /var/...) > Hadn't Ian (or someone) posted a solution for this one? Something like checking in the postinst of each of base-files base-passwd and makedev if the other two package are installed... and if they are, just rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.list, touch /var/lib/dpkg/base.list. Dpkg would then automatically remove base from its database on the next run... Or did I dream this up? Christian
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