Re: why no package status feature for dpkg?
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's
> contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself
> having to write perl scripts to coerce dpkg into releasing the
> information about missing files. And even then, I won't know if a
> file is really undamaged.
Good idea --- maybe a "dpkg --check-corrupted" to see if a supposedly
installed package has been damaged or had components removed. I'm not
a coder at all, but maybe somebody else who reads this post is.
A temporary hack would be, when you have a man page go missing, do a
dpkg --remove package; apt-get install package. Until you need the
page, don't worry about it.
>
> So who *knows* what I'm running now, and whether it corresponds to
> anything remotely resembling Official Debian 2.0.
Yeah, I was running probably 1/3 unstable for a while. I went to
glibc2.1 to use the new kernel and that kept breaking little things,
and I finally said screw it and went to a full potato box. Unstable
for Debian is pretty stable, though; I figure as long as I don't
follow the bleeding edge and only upgrade what's broken I'll be fine.
> Somebody remind me again how .deb is the perfect packaging format,
>sublime in all the details of its creation, without flaw in its every
>detail, and how all others (should) bow low to it. I still haven't
>found an explanation of why RPM sucks so badly that Debian developers
>cannot fix it. I mean, xterm sucked so badly that somebody had to
>create xterm-debian and break everybody's termcap, so why not
>RPM-debian and break everybody else's RPM manipulators?
I bet you'd feel a lot better if you hadn't just been beating this to
death for several hours. Get a good night's sleep and a warm meal.
Rob
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America: born free and taxed to death.
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