On 10/29/2012 04:25 PM, jon.jrs@gmail.com wrote:
I am having trouble with the following: $ dpkg --get-selections>list (this appears to work okay) but: # dpkg --set-selections<list The command gives an error which is repeated over and over. dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 341 This worked fine for me on a previous occasion, so I am doing something stupid - but I cannot see it. The only difference that I know of is that I am trying to do this to a to an installation of sid within virtualbox. That is it.
serious bugs of dpkg (-> ) <marked as done in some version>#690823 - gadfly: build wrong version of the packaging during a binNMU (Fixed: dpkg/1.16.9) #684776 - dpkg incorrectly complains about conffile contents being different for MA packages (Fixed: dpkg/1.16.9)
-- HTH