Re: package in a bad way - what to do
On August 29, 2001 06:50 am, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote:
> In re:
> > Now it's time for surgery.
> > Go find the deb file and run dpkg -c aime-whatever-.deb
> >
> > Just destroy all the files that are listed as being part of the package
> > and judisciously scrub the c>
>
> OK, I'll try it.
>
> BUT and I do mean BUT ... this is Kafka-esque. I don't often run into a
> problem that seems to get laughed away, pushed under a rug or ignored ...
> that, it seems to me, is the style of the realm of proprietary software!
>
> :)
>
> Can no one tell me why the options involving 'reinstreq' just don't seem
> to ... work on my machine? Why they are seemingly unrecognized when the
> manual, in fact, prominently lists them?
>
> A search on 'reinstreq' on the debian.org website turns up one document
> ... in Polish. There are several bug reports for [the testing version of]
> dpkg, but a cursory look doesn't reveal anything relevant.
>
> I'm running a custom 2.4.8 kernel, but the only thing I customized was
> module versioning ... this couldn't have anything to do with the problem,
> could it? I'm fishin' here, and I'm a vegetarian - so you know I'm
> desperate!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glenn
>
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The document in Polish doesn't really contain anything useful regarding your
problem. Basically it just reiterates that packages marked
"reinstall-required" cannot be handled by dpkg unless you use
--force-reinstreq or whatever. Dead end there :D
--
Kamil Kisiel
www.speechlessarts.com
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