Re: apt-get files problems
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a <package_name>.list file for every package
>> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for.
>
> Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on
> one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old -
> now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI). And my backups
> with the undamaged data are too old compared to the state of packages
> before the disk read errors began to multiply. In addition to running
> fsck on the file system, I have shifted /var to the partition which
> used to be /opt and vice-versa, as the latter partition has (not yet)
> exhibited read errors and /opt under Debian can live on smaller space.
> After the year-end financial ebb, maybe I shall plunk down enough cash
> to replace the IDE drive with magneto-optical disks. One ouch is
> enough.
>
> Anyway, lamentation leads nowhere. How can I get apt to regenerate
> those *.list files, please?
>
This, I don't know =/ I also don't know if the .list files are
generated or just sucked out of the .deb packages ...
Anyone?
--
monique
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