Re: what is /var/lib/dpkg/available for?
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Przemyslaw Brojewski wrote:
> Recently a hard drive failure hit my box. Among few other files,
> there were /var/lib/dpkg/available and available-old lost.
>
> I've simply did touch /var/lib/dpkg/available and
> apt-get is happy with it.
Run 'dselect update' instead.
> The question is: what is still broken?
'dpkg -p <packagename>', dselect, grep-available if you have it, and
tasksel at least.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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