Re: consistency check

1998-04-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 09:26:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i am always not sure, wether my system is OK. :) sometimes it might be > > useful to do a new installation (no update) only because then much of the > > old unn

Adding files to dpkg AND cruft (was Re: consistency check)

1998-04-26 Thread Carl Mummert
Fabien Ninoles wrote: > That's the reason why I would like to see a > > dpkg --{remove,add}-files [--package ] > > option to dpkg. I think it's simple to implement to the package .list file> and can ease the task for securing local files > from dpkg in addition > to help checking the system.

Re: consistency check

1998-04-26 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: [...] > > In particular, it checks that all the files listed as alternatives, as > diversions and in the dpkg database itself are all present and accounted > for, and produces a list of things that weren't listed but are still on > you

Re: consistency check

1998-04-25 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If you're running a hamm (Debian 2.0, frozen) you might like to look at > cruft (cruft_0.9.4_i386.deb, still sitting in Incoming; try > ftp1.us.debian.org:/pub/debian/Incoming > or your favourite Incoming mirror) which does s

Re: consistency check

1998-04-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 09:26:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hm. after updating some packages i found out that old directories still > exist. (the older packages didn't clean themselves the right way) > should there be a possibility to do something like > dpkg --overall-consistency-check >