Re: Fixing Broken System
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 16:51, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:23:19AM -0400, Brian Victor wrote:
> > Due to an intermittent hard drive error which has since been fixed, my
> > root partition has taken significant but not sweeping damage. Most
> > binaries still work, but a few don't, such as df, cat, and mount. I
> > don't know precisely how much was damaged, nor do I know an easy method
> > of determining this.
> >
> > That said, is there any way of forcing apt to reinstall all installed
> > packages or something? From what I can tell, upgrade and dist-upgrade
> > only reinstall changed packages. Or perhaps I can install the potato
> > base and use my existing apt database to tell it what packages to
> > install? What is the recommended way of recovering such a broken
> > system?
>
> Probably someone on debian-user would know better, this is not a powerpc
> question.
>
> If I were trying to do this (but I'm no expert!), I would try something like
>
> dpkg -S `ls /bin` | sed 's/:.*$//' | sort | uniq > package_list_bin
> dpkg -S `ls /sbin` | sed 's/:.*$//' | sort | uniq > package_list_sbin
>
> to see what packages are involved, and then edit package_list
> into a script that would apt-get remove and apt-get install them.
Or apt-get --reinstall install...
> It would probably be dangerous to do them all at once.
You don't seem very confident in APT...
PS: With aptitude, reinstalling all installed packages is very easy.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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