On Thursday 21 March 2002 12:23 pm, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:19:30AM +0000, Jason Wood wrote: > > > > If anyone is interested, I've uploaded my current (broken) status file > > (gzipped) here : > > > > http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/apt-problems/status.gz > > > > And I have provided the last working status file here : > > > > http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/apt-problems/dpkg.status.2.gz > > > > And the diff between the two files here : > > > > http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/apt-problems/diff > > Weird. I can't see anything wrong with the current status file. But I'm > not the expert on that area. > > I also find it slightly odd that you had to go back to to dpkg.status.2 > - were dpkg.status.{0,1.gz} idential to /var/lib/dpkg/status? Since I > can see that some packages have been installed and subsequently removed > there may be clues in the backups in between. And you will probably want > them for the bug report anyway.
At least one of these was to do with me attempting to get apt-get working again. At one point I actuall managed to get it to update the file lists, but when I tried to install an update, it wanted to remove about 100 packages, several of them critical (bsd-tools was one of them, I think). When I then re-added them using dselect, apt-get broke again. > As far as I can see, the diff boils down to: > 1) dpkg has been upgraded from 1.9.19 (=testing) to 1.9.20 (=unstable) This was part of the fiddling that I have done. I manually downloaded the latest version (at the time) and installed it to see if it fixed the problem. > > 2) You asked dselect(?) to remove: > epos-ptd > epos-ktd > libwrap0-dev I'm not sure what libwrap is, but epos is a text-to-speech program which I played about with a bit. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about it. For the moment, I think I will just wait a week or so and see if the problem fixes itself (by downloading + installing new apt-get and dpkg if and when they appear) and then I'll take another look and try and fix things. Thanks for the help, Jason -- Jason Wood Persistence is a virtue
