Re: aptitude hosed X
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 14:06, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> And being an ardent user of mondo you did a mondoarchive before you
> started playing with aptitude... ;-)
/PLAYING/ with aptitude? It's not exactly a toy, but my preferred
package manager.
What the heck is ... <googling for mondo>...
Ah.
I have recent backups of /home and /etc, but somehow they're not very
useful in this case. I now have installed a brand new sarge... most
stuff is working again, but it will take me weeks to fix all the odds
and ends I'm currently not even aware of.
But, hmmmm. What use is aptitude (or any package manager) if you have to
make a backup everytime? No, wrong approach. It's not as if aptitude
would leave a trail of destruction each time it's called, and I don't
know if it's even the frontend to blame or rather some (un-)set
dependencies that didn't work out.
Any clue how I get aptitude to report its actions to some logfile? This
would have made my recovery attempts a lot easier.
cu,
Schnobs
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