package management
Okay, I have calmed down a bit since I sent my "kill, kill, kill" mail,
and now have some more rationally formulated questions about package
management.
1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it
can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of
whatever error codes any scripts return, thus allowing you to start over
from a pristine pre-install state? Something like
dpkg --force-do-it-or-else --remove PackageName
2) Is there any way to tell dpkg to mark a specific package with a hold
flag without going through the dselect menus? I always end up getting
lost and doing things I don't want to in dselect, and I really want to
be able to just type something like
dpkg --flag hold PackageName
at the command line.
3) Is there any way to export the entire package database from one
machine and then tell another machine to install exactly those packages
(i.e. not only install the missing ones but also remove the extra ones)?
Again, I would like to avoid the dselect interface like the plague.
4) It seems that sometimes packages get into a "deselect ok installed"
state from which it is impossible to do anyting. Is these some way to
force-change the associated flags?
Any answers to any of these questions would be most appreciated.
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