On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > My recommendation is that you provide a post-install that checks the > syntax of /var/lib/dpkg/status|available and fixes the files.
To make your life easier, I tared up my entire /var/lib/dpkg if you want to see what an old DB looks like: http://marc.merlins.org/tmp/dpkg-db.tar.gz (15MB) Note that I also have packages which got called -gargamel1 by make-kpkg which is indeed invalid too (kernel packages), but that's only a few of them and maybe I can hand edit the databases to put -1gargamel1 instead (or if your postinstall script could fix that too, that'd be awesome) Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
