Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

T wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
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> > ...  If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
> > then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
> > conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for). 
> >    
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> It should work. That's the trick I used to play. Now I'm thinking that
> your whole package management system is in some kind of weird stage now...
>  
That could very well be I suppose.  I've been hacking on my script, 
re-run, hack some more, etc...

Is there a command to force dpkg to check and rebuild the database?  
(This is on a test machine, so I could just reinstall it, but what would 
I do on a user's machine where reinstalling is, at best, a last resort?)

Michael Peek