On 23-Oct-99 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ben, > > I could not find pam-apps at all using dselect. While I was there, I > removed all obsolete packages > (there were several, and this did not have any other affects). dselect did > want to install several > other packages but this did not help either. > > I am not sure why my system ended up with shadow passwords and such. Prior > to this problem, I was > running potato fine without it and dselect seemed to decide on its own to > install these extra > packages. Is there a way to get back to where I was?
I wonder if one can perform dpkg-repack on all the packages that are about to be upgraded. That would be a nice option. I did not find it in a apt man page. It would be a good option to use in a situation such as the one described above, *before* performing the upgrade. -- Andrew
