Re: "Cleaning out" dselect

1999-10-13 Thread Miles Bader
"David J. Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache > list? What do I have to delete? This isn't really what you asked for, but if you give a dselect command like `+', `-', or `=' while the cursor is on a section header, it wil

Re: "Cleaning out" dselect

1999-10-13 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: > While using dselect when I really didn't know what I was doing, I'd select > packages and in the heat of the moment, wind up putting some things on hold, > flagging others for deletion, and eventually quitting out of

Re: "Cleaning out" dselect

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
"David J. Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache > list? The mystery cache list is /var/lib/dpkg/status -- you don't want to remove it, but you may want to edit it. Be careful, and keep a backup.

"Cleaning out" dselect

1999-10-12 Thread David J. Kanter
While using dselect when I really didn't know what I was doing, I'd select packages and in the heat of the moment, wind up putting some things on hold, flagging others for deletion, and eventually quitting out of confusion. But now that I know how to use dselect better, I'd like to update some of