On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:09:11PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> During the development of a new deb package, my dpkg database is going
> to increase its dirty-level.
> Packages that are being developped got installed and deinstalled, change
> names, change sections and so on...
> The result ? My dpkg database contains info about many packages that
> does not exists or that does not belong to the right section.
>
> Is there a clean way to remove info related to some packages ?
> Currently my solution is to manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/* files, but I
> wonder about the existence of some cleaner way to do it.
>
>From dpkg manual:
dpkg --clear-avail
Erase the existing information about what packages
are available.
Best Regards
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