I accidently did something quite stupid while tired (never be root when tired. sigh) I accidently removed /var/lib/dpkg/status while I was removing some of the old status files to save some room in my /var partition. Now, of course, dpkg has no idea of what packages are installed, and is badly broken. Is there ANY way of getting dpkg to read all the info in /var/lib/dpkg/info or the other directories and making it rebuild the status file? I have checked the docs, and even tired to recover any of the files using the ex2fs file recovery HOWTO but I failed. Any suggestions you could give me would be most appreciated, because I really do not want to rebuild my entire system from scratch. :(
Thanks in advance,
Todd
