On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote:
Would it be a bad idea to just do a tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz from my root directory? I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway?
I really don't know, I am not familiar enough with what dbootstrap does behind the scenes of installation to know what will get broken and how badly by doing this. i am sure there will be at least some breakage in the form of creating a unconfigured base...
does dpkg have a --set-perms option like RPM to set all permissions in a package to what they should be?
that would be perfect for this situation... -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/