On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 17:42 Europe/Brussels, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
Now it seems the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status is damaged. How do I recover it?When this happens, status-old is in general not damaged, so the first fix to try is
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/openssl097- dev_0.9.7b-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1807 package `openssl097-dev':
missing version
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2
a) diff status status-old to be sure for what other packages they differ, besides openssl097-dev
b) cp -p status status-svd (to be sure) ; cp -p status-old status
c) use iteratively (at least once each, since the corresponding file-lists are often also corrupted in
that case) fink reinstall and fink purge on each of the suspicious packages to bring them to their
desired state.
d) If in the above you discover that status-old was also damaged _ there is only one remedy :
to edit it...
JF Mertens
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