On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:00:50AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > -----FW: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>----- > > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 06:09:17 -0800 (PST) > From: James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: /var/lib/dpkg/status > > How is it possible to rebuild the status file other than by using one > of the 3 month old "yesterday.gz" backups? A filesystem crash caused > the inclusion of binary crud into the current and last two versions. It > would be preferable to generate new, rather than recycle an old file. > > An old system, Debian Bo, and for some reason archive.debian.org is no > longer answering. Is it time to wipe the disk clean? It's been running > since 1994/5 (Rex?) and this is the only thing wrong with it. :( > > The other box is a Woody. :-)
You'll have to use one of the old ones. There's no sensible way to regenerate this. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
