My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which unfortunately lacked the patch).
I wanted to dpkg -i my_old.deb (that will work, even for a downgrade, won't it?), but dpkg said dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory The status area was on one of the evms disks. I used dpkg-deb to unpack the .deb file and copied the single file I needed over the newer one. Is there a better way to do this? Is there any way to run dpkg -i when the directory it needs is gone? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
