On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:02:18 -0400 Wayne Topa <linux...@gmail.com> wrote:
=On 10/29/2012 04:25 PM, jon....@gmail.com wrote: => I am having trouble with the following: => => $ dpkg --get-selections>list (this appears to work okay) => => but: => => # dpkg --set-selections<list => => The command gives an error which is repeated over and over. => => dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 341 => => This worked fine for me on a previous occasion, so I am doing something => stupid - but I cannot see it. => => The only difference that I know of is that I am trying to do this to => a to an installation of sid within virtualbox. => => That is it. = =serious bugs of dpkg (-> ) <marked as done in some version> = #690823 - gadfly: build wrong version of the packaging during a binNMU =(Fixed: dpkg/1.16.9) = #684776 - dpkg incorrectly complains about conffile contents being =different for MA packages (Fixed: dpkg/1.16.9) = Thanks for all the good information. I have been having a small problem with email - perhaps caused by hurricane sandy. Bug #684776 seems to be the culprit. John -- ======================================== Sent using: debian -> xfce -> claws-mail ======================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121030173506.734b4...@erica.song
