Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...
On 23-Oct-99 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I could not find pam-apps at all using dselect. While I was there, I
> removed all obsolete packages
> (there were several, and this did not have any other affects). dselect did
> want to install several
> other packages but this did not help either.
>
> I am not sure why my system ended up with shadow passwords and such. Prior
> to this problem, I was
> running potato fine without it and dselect seemed to decide on its own to
> install these extra
> packages. Is there a way to get back to where I was?
I wonder if one can perform dpkg-repack on all the packages that are about to
be upgraded. That would be a nice option. I did not find it in a apt man
page. It would be a good option to use in a situation such as the one
described above, *before* performing the upgrade.
--
Andrew
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