On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:49:44PM -0400, stan wrote: > I made teh stupid mistake of copying /etc/apt/sources from one machine > to another. Problem is, I did not copy the preferences file also, and > the new sources had a line referencing unstable. > > I then used dselect, and it upgraded 200= packages! > > At the monent, my system's pretty hosed (gnome does not work at all > for instance). > > I have pretty decent Amanda backups. Is there some way that I can > restore the system to wgere it was before? Either by using tha Amanda > backups (but won't that muck up the Debian packages databse?) Or > somehow get dselect or apt-get to resoter it to where it was > yesterday? As long as you restore dpkg's database too, this should not be a problem. I *think* that dpkg's database is basically the contents of the /var/lib/dpkg tree. -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign x - Say NO to HTML in email / \ - Say NO to Word documents in email (and Macros!)
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