Re: dpkg funnies

[Pablo Baena <greyheart@fnmail.com>]

We do need an option in dselect that, when you screw up your
selections, it'd search your installed packages, and reset
all the selections to the installed/not-installed flag according
to what it sees. dselect rules until I make a stupid mistake and
I have to see every single package to come back to the normal
state.
                                                Pablo.

Valentijn Sessink <valentyn+killspam@nospam.openoffice.nl> writes:
.....
> Now after that, "dselect" showed that a whole bunch of stuff had an
> "install" selection state but was not installed (why?). I wanted to get
> rid of those. Now the only way to change package selection states seems
> to be "dselect" and "dpkg --set-selections".
.....