On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:17:54PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:41:50AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Developers with amd64 machines are also now able to upload new versions > > of their package built locally (rather than in an i386 chroot) -- but > > in order to ensure dependencies are calculated correctly, please make > > sure you're building using Debian unstable and not packages from Ubuntu > > or the unofficial debian-amd64 archive; using pbuilder or debootstrap > > to create a chroot build environment might be helpful in this case. > > In order to fulfill this requirement, is there a best practice / any > possible way to "convert" an amd64 box which has been installed from > debian-amd64 to an official debian amd64 box?
I use the following: apt-get clean apt-get --reinstall install -d `dpkg --get-selections |grep -v deinstall | sed -e 's/\t.*//' ` cd /var/cache/apt/archives dpkg -i *.deb You can't do it without the -d, apt-get seems to have a problem with depedency loops. Note that it might complain about packages it can't (re)install, in my case those were all packages that have been replaced. You should remove those. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
