Re: highly touted package management tools vs. modem user
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:10:31PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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)?
No no no no no no no no no. Other stuff is kept in /var/lib/dpkg/status
too (the currently installed state), and you don't want to lose that.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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