Somebody mentioned recently that they'd like a way for dselect to
reinstall all installed packages. Their reason may have been because of a
bad disk that corrupted some unknown number of files (caused by bios LBA
and 32-bit access, I remember now?).
I trashed my setup trying to get g++ to work by installing some packages
from the unstable tree.
As the last stage of repair I wrote this little Tcl script to generate a
list of dpkg commands. The output looks like this:
dpkg -i /usr/local/src/debian/1.3.1-fixed/binary-i386/base/adduser_3.2.deb
dpkg -i /usr/local/src/debian/1.3.1-fixed/binary-i386/base/ae_962-14.deb
dpkg -i
/usr/local/src/debian/1.3.1-fixed/binary-i386/libs/aout-svgalib_1.2.10-4.deb
dpkg -i /usr/local/src/debian/1.3.1-fixed/binary-i386/admin/at_3.1.7-3.deb
...etc...
I plan to execute these manually, one at a time.
Here is the Tcl program. It outputs to stdout so just redirect the output
to a file.
--- snip ---
#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using tclsh \
exec tclsh "$0" "$@"
set plist [split [exec dpkg --get-selections] \n]
foreach l $plist {
set p [string trim [lindex $l 0]]
set s [string trim [lindex $l 1]]
if {$s == "install"} {
set d [exec debfind /${p}_ | grep -v /unstable/]
if {[llength $d] == 1} {
puts "dpkg -i $d"
} {
puts "Found multiple matches for $p: $d"
}
} {
puts "Skipping $p: $s"
}
}
--- snip ---
...RickM...
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