Bug#194190: ITP: dpkg-rebuild -- Rebuild dpkg's status file
Le Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:32:11PM +0100, Steve Kemp a écrit:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
>
> > * Package name : dpkg-rebuild
> > Version : Will be 0.1
> >
> > Rebuild the Debian '/var/lib/dpkg/status' file from information in
> > '/var/lib/dpkg/available' and '/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list'. This is
> > useful if your 'status' file got corrupted if the system crashed during
> > package maintenance, for example.
> >
> > I think this script is quite useful although it is not complete.
> > Unless somebody has serious reason to refuse this package entering
> > Debian, I will package and upload it.
>
> I'm not claiming this is a serious objection, but this file
> is backed up into /var/backups on a nightly (?) basis by the cron
> package.
>
> I admit that I didn't learn of this until very recently so it could
> well be the case that this isn't widely documented..
Maybe it could useful to add a notes something.
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