Re: Bug#56568: apt-get hangs trying to remove half installed package

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:07:14PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Chris Walker wrote:
> 
> > I've fixed the problem, but it is possible that one of the
> > /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday files may contain the problem
> > database. I'll bring them in on floppy tomorrow. Is it OK to mail them
> > to you - they are about 100K each compressed (I won't mail them to the
> > BTS).  If not, I can probably put them up for ftp somewhere.
> 
> No, those files are very unlikely to have the exact moment required. 

I've checked them using apt-get upgrade on another machine (as described 
in /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz) and, as you suggest they don't have the 
exact moment. Sorry about that. I'm not mad keen on trying to replicate this
but if I see it again I'll let you know.

Thanks,

Chris