Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? > > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and > > re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It happened > > again about an hour ago, but I recovered by blowing away the existing > > copy (on the grounds that I didn't have anything to lose) and rerunning > > `dselect update', which recreated it correctly. What's going on here? > > Not sure. Did you originally create your local mirror with apt-move > 3.x (potato version) ? Are you now using 4.x (woody version) ? If so > you need to read /usr/share/doc/apt-move/README. There were major > changes between 3.x and 4.x. If you have not done apt-move fsck then > perhaps the Packages.gz apt-move creates are corrupted and this in > turn is affecting /var/lib/dpkg/available.
No, I upgraded to woody from a brand-new, minimal potato install, so I only started creating the mirror with apt-move 4.1.20. I am running apt-move fsck as I type this, though, so we'll see if that fixes the problem. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
