On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:03:32AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: [...] > Since re-installing the base system overwrites the status file, my > machine had no idea what software had been installed. I wonder if a > utility for apt would be useful to reconstruct the status file from > what's on disk.
Does it overwrite the backup of dpkg.status in /var/backups? (There's a cron job that backs up key config files every day). -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED]
