On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 18:39:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > This evening the partition that /usr was mounted on completely killed > itself. After about 3 hours of disaster recovery I've gotten my server > limping along. Here is the problem I am facing. dpkg, dselect and apt all > do not appear to have any way to force the reinstall of all currently > installed packages.
Assuming you have a current Debian archive under /mnt (e.g. via NFS), you can do dpkg -OGR /mnt (i.e. dpkg --selected-only --refuse-downgrade --recursive /mnt). Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.