Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system)
MoiN
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > dpkg-divert --package base-files --divert-to /dev.base/hda /dev/hda
>
> Ugh.. ugly...
>
> The clean solution is to truncate the file list of base, as proposed. This
> will "release" all the files owned by that package safely, with no danger at
> all.
But this will only work as long as the internal format of dpkg's
database won't change. But I heard it will definitely be changed
in the future. So how will you deal with this "change"?
I just wanted to point out a way _without_ changing any
_internal_ structures. I agree with you that it is ugly. But
please be careful messing around with dpkg's internals!!!
Ingo
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