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
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Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

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