Dirk Luetjens wrote: > during an update form Debian 1.1 to Debian 1.2.2 I purged the base > package "base" from Debian 1.1 (dselect show this package as obsolete) > Afterwards all files in /dev where missing. > > Are there any substitutions for this package? Which package must I > reinstall to get everything working? > > What to do with other obsolete packages?
I had some obsolete packages that dselect couldn't do anything about. Using locate, I determined that either there weren't any files left on the system for those packages anyway, or I manually deleted them. If I remember correctly, I just went into /var/lib/dpkg/status and set the status line for them to "purge". I think I did the same with the old "base" package, so it looks like this: Package: base Essential: yes Status: purge ok not-installed I didn't notice any problems, and it cleaned up the dselect sections. I didn't manually delete any files that had anything to do with "base". -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
