Hi, I have a question about a Debian potato system. It recently lost its /home and /var file systems in a disk failure. /home is not a problem. /var is a bit more of a problem since that is the place where debian systems keep a track of which packages are installed. I believe /var/lib/dpkg/status is the file that is most important here. Naturally, /var and this file are not backed up. The rest of the syetm is working OK.
The question is: how does one go about reverse engineering the contants of /var/lib/dpkg/status? -- Regards, Chris. Home Page: http://www.jedi.apana.org.au/~perry/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
