On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:31:16 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing.
rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled
with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk).
That's weird - that upgrade path should work. (It shouldn't be possible to
install testing's placeholder fileutils package without coreutils being
installed already)
Any suggestions short of a rebuild?
None of the dpkg/apt utilities will function because they all error out
with 'rm blah blah blah' fail (because there is no rm).
You could try putting coreutils' rm in place via
dpkg-deb -x coreutils.deb /
then
dpkg --pending --configure
and try if the system's recoverable from that state.
HTH,
Ray