Re: Fwd: /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:00:50AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 06:09:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: James Vahn <jvahn@short.circuit.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: /var/lib/dpkg/status
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> How is it possible to rebuild the status file other than by using one
> of the 3 month old "yesterday.gz" backups? A filesystem crash caused
> the inclusion of binary crud into the current and last two versions. It
> would be preferable to generate new, rather than recycle an old file.
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> An old system, Debian Bo, and for some reason archive.debian.org is no
> longer answering. Is it time to wipe the disk clean? It's been running
> since 1994/5 (Rex?) and this is the only thing wrong with it. :(
>
> The other box is a Woody. :-)
You'll have to use one of the old ones. There's no sensible way to
regenerate this.
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