On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush.
> I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obliged.
Aargh! you removed base? You might be in for some trouble. Try to
run dpkg -i base-files.deb before you reboot. That will put some of the
vital files back I hope.
> After that, I had neither timezone NOR timezones installed (don't know why),
> and removing base removed /usr/local (a symlink luckily, I've been bitten
> before), most of /dev, etc. Not nice at all. Surely there is something
> we can do to prevent this? I'm not unannoyed.
These issues have been discussed some months ago (esp. w.r.t. base,) but
some people think that it is Supreme Evil to munge with files in
/var/lib/dpkg/info (that's what you need to do to get rid of "base"
safely.) IMHO having your system flushed is far worse. In the case of
timezone{,s}, I don't know exactly where the problem lies. You should
file a bugreport.
> Also /dev/MAKEDEV has a group `tty', but running "/dev/MAKEDEV tty"
> will only create /dev/tty, and not the rest (tty1..tty8). /dev/MAKEDEV
> will not make /dev/console, and finally MAKEDEV is inconsistent;
> asking for hd will create only hdaN and hdbN (not hdcN or hddN), while
> creating sd will create all the way up to sdp.
>
> Hamish (about to play russian roulette by rebooting)
Please file bugs on package makedev instead.
Cheers,
Joost
