Re: Where does dselect store it's selections?
On Sun Jan 20 12:35:40 2002 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote...
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>On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote:
>> I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this
>> weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that
>> machine :-(
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>> Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it.
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>> So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake of telling it to update, and tried
>> to seect cups, instead of lprng.
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>> Unfortuantely, I go inot a depedncy loop, that I could not figure out how
>> to resolve, as I tried to exit the selection step., so In desperation, I
>> control C's out of it.
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>> Seems to me, that I probably should go back to the set of working
>> selections I had before firing it up, and I reacll that it keeps a backup
>> file f the selections before it was fired up, but i can't remeber where
>> this lives.
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>> Help please! Where is this abckup file, and does my plan make sense?
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>dpkg --get-selections > output
><edit file by hand>
>dpkg --set-selections < output
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>Not particularly pretty but it will work.
Thnaks, but hoopefully I don't have to resort to that. I have not fired up
dselect since I had teh loop.
If anyone could kindly tell me where it stores it's backup selections file,
i should be able to roll back to before I invoked it last time.
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