Re: purged package base while update to Debian 1.2.2

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

Dirk Luetjens wrote:

> during an update form Debian 1.1 to Debian 1.2.2 I purged the base
> package "base" from Debian 1.1 (dselect show this package as obsolete)
> Afterwards all files in /dev where missing.
> 
> Are there any substitutions for this package? Which package must I
> reinstall to get everything working?
> 
> What to do with other obsolete packages?

I had some obsolete packages that dselect couldn't do anything about.
Using locate, I determined that either there weren't any files left on
the
system for those packages anyway, or I manually deleted them.

If I remember correctly, I just went into /var/lib/dpkg/status and
set the status line for them to "purge". I think I did the same with the
old "base" package, so it looks like this:

   Package: base
   Essential: yes
   Status: purge ok not-installed

I didn't notice any problems, and it cleaned up the dselect sections. I
didn't manually delete any files that had anything to do with "base".

-- 
...RickM...


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