Am Mi, 20.07.2011, 14:40 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Michael Neuffer wrote: >> > The database file is corrupted. What did you do to corrupt it? Is >> there a >> > reliable way to corrupt it? >> >> Yes, by editing it by hand. :-) > > So there's no bug in update-alternatives at least.
No, not that I know of. >> I had to do it a few weeks earlier to remove >> some alternatives that were corrupted by a broken package. >> (Things that constantly using unstable can do to you...) > > Hum, that should not happen. You should always be able to > update-alternatives to fix stuff. Not when you manage to get into circular dependencies. >> I had to edit and fix alternatives manually every now and then over the >> past 15 years or so and never had (major) problems with that. Maybe I >> was >> just lucky so far. > > You won't have to do this in the future, update-alternatives no longer > allows installation of broken alternatives and fixes stuff itself for most > cases. When did that change get rolled out? >> > It lacks lots of empty lines at the end. Each alternative should have >> a >> > set of line like this: >> > [...] >> Yes I removed them. I wasn't aware that they were significant. > > *shrug* :-) >> The file format unfortunately isn't documented in the man page. > > Because it's not meant to be edited with anything else than > update-alternatives... Maybe a warning in the manpage would be good. Manually fixing up dpkg status & info files becomes an ingrained habit over the years. The Debian & Ubuntu bleeding egde will cut you every now and then with problems that force manual intervention. >> Is there a way to find out how many empty lines are missing where? > > I documented the format above... Yes thank you for that. > in your specific case you need 15 lines > in total (master + priority + 13 slaves). You already have 4 lines so you > need 11 empty lines after. Thanks! I'll give it a shot when I'm back home. Currently I don't have my laptop with me. Cheers Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
