/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found
base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it
to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition
of some of the rescue disk itself (fsck) I got an ldconfig, and got it
to boot again, after several false starts. I then used dpkg -i to
reinstall most of the stuff in main/binary-i386/base which got most
stuff working, including dselect.

I'm now using dselect to reinstall pretty much everything and get the
system back into a consistent state. I have got a few errors on some
packages due to /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/foo being corrupt. (eg. foo
= awk)

Is it permissible simply to delete these files? Will I risk breaking
the whole thing again? If so, how do I restore them?

TIA
Pigeon