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Re: Word to the wise Re: is your WINE broken too?



Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com> writes:

> On 14-Oct-99 David Coe wrote:
> > Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package
> > that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the
> > continued operation of your system), I recommend you use dpkg-repack
> > first,, to save a copy of the currently-installed version.
> 
> I was wondering if I could do something like that, but I was not familiar with
> that dpkg option.  Thanks for the info.  I will record it for future use.

I should have said, ``dpkg-repack'' is a separate package, not a dpkg option.


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