On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:13:46PM -0400, David M. Cooke wrote: > 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).
I don't know when it happened, but by the time I got there status.old was the same as status. It would have been great to know about /var/backups!! I'll submit a change to the debian-reference. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
