MoiN On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > dpkg-divert --package base-files --divert-to /dev.base/hda /dev/hda > > Ugh.. ugly... > > The clean solution is to truncate the file list of base, as proposed. This > will "release" all the files owned by that package safely, with no danger at > all.
But this will only work as long as the internal format of dpkg's database won't change. But I heard it will definitely be changed in the future. So how will you deal with this "change"? I just wanted to point out a way _without_ changing any _internal_ structures. I agree with you that it is ugly. But please be careful messing around with dpkg's internals!!! Ingo -- Windows, me?