Re: highly touted package management tools vs. modem user
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:55:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:05:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > One of your problems appears to be a corrupted (or garbled) package
> > state. I haven't done major surgery on this for a while, and suspect
> > dselect keeps its state somewhere other than apt.
>
> dselect keeps its state in /var/lib/dpkg/status. There's a patch in bug
> #151540 to implement a single key which resets it to the installed
> state.
>
Is it safe for a frustrated user to simply remove /var/lib/dpkg/status if
he/she becomes convinced that it has been messed up (by the user)? Will
dselect regenerate it? If so, from what information?
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