On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 02:53:55AM +0200, null void wrote: > Suddenly...dselect now shows all packages pending removal...this is > dangerous...Can I make dselect somehow correct itself?
I've seen this before, am not quite sure how I bailed out of it. Take the following as advisory but not necessarily correct. First, *don't* allow dselect to commit those changes. You'll have a lot of recovery to do. Under /var/lib/dpkg, you'll see a bunch of files matching "status*". I believe I've moved "status" to something like "status.bak", and tried looking at various prior versions until I've found something that doesn't want to perform drastic surgery on my system. This may be covered under docs somewhere, I'd try prowling through dpkg, dselect, or apt-get manpages. Good luck. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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