William Ballard wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:22:50AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:I have edited /var/lib/dpkg/status to recover from a b0rked system after a power outage in the middle of a fairly big dist-upgrade. Just be careful, as you have the potential to really hose dpkg's idea of what is on your system.I'll show you the bit I want to edit out: begins... present in the `icu' and `icu-locales` packages. Package: fglrx-4.3.0-kernel-2.6.9 Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: extra Section: non-free/x11 Architecture: i386 Package: unrar ....continues I want to remove the middle bit, related to fglrx-4.3.0-kernel-2.6.9. Just chomp it out? It also appears in status-old.
Removing the Architecture line seems safest if you want to mess with the status file[which I don't recommend]. Alternatively, apply the attached patch to vrms[which is just a perl script].
Random ironic aside, shouldn't vrms have a copyright/license header and the top of the perl script or does /usr/share/doc/vrms/copyright suffice? A quick survey of perl scripts in /usr/bin/ showed most have a copyright/license header but for instance bonobo-slay also doesn't.
--- /usr/bin/vrms 2002-08-05 22:59:06.000000000 -0400
+++ ./vrms 2005-01-10 00:57:29.000000000 -0500
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
my (@pkglines) = split(/\n/, $clump);
### iff more than for lines, package is installed, so process it
### (speed-up by skipping don't-care entries)
- if(@pkglines > 4) {
+ if(@pkglines > 5) {
my $pkg = ""; ### name of this package
my $pkgstatus = ""; ### status
my $plan = ""; ### install plan (hold, deinstall, purge, install, etc.)
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