On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:18:29PM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > ++ 15/11/00 01:08 +0100 - Wichert Akkerman: > > Previously Eythan Weg wrote: > > > What can be done to make dpkg working again? Or > > > at least usable to some degree. > > > > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > > touch /var/lib/dpkg/available > > mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/info > > dpkg --force-depends -i dpkg_1.6.15.deb > > May be dpkg could save /var/lib/dpkg/ directory somewhere every week? > May be not all /var/lib/dpkg/ but the most needed parts.
That's something for the admin to do. Maybe it could be added as an option to another package (cron?). But I don't think it should be part of dpkg's job to do backups. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
