Hi, I am experimenting dpkg and friends on redhat system (packed dpkg-1.9.6 as an rpm and installed). I would like to know how I can properly initialize package database (i.e., get all needed file in place under /var/lib/dpkg) so that this error can be avoided:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bar]# dpkg --admindir=/var/lib/dpkg -l dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory A run of [EMAIL PROTECTED] bar]# touch /var/lib/dpkg/status seems to solve this problem. But there must be a more elegant way to do this. Specifically I am looking for a counterpart of # rpm --initdb --dbpath /var/lib/rpm Or even better, does anyone know a URL that has a comparison chart of dpkg and rpm command line tricks (actions/options)? Does dpkg do a trick similar to # rpm -qa --last Thanks, -T
