On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 04:12:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
It doesn't. base-files does not contain ANY devices. I am a bit surprised
at how many of the files in the base.tgz file are not owned by any package
after installation -- I think this is bad. Not even the kernel belongs
to any package after initial installation.
> 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.
Surely SOMETHING could be done to prevent removing base from trashing
the system. base-files should own the same set of files anyway I should
think; I can't see why it wouldn't provide the devices.
Hamish
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