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want to make it clear that I tried for a few days with no success, and am now making a plea to the Debian community. Jon Eisenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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an help. I want to make it clear that I tried for a few days with no success, and am now making a plea to the Debian community.   Jon Eisenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs not updating correctly

> I use cvs in Debian for lots of things but I'm still a newcomer in > this field, I think I am not being able to get new created directories > and files from the cvs repository with an cvs update, are there > arguments or options to do this? Try using 'cvs update -d'. That should update newly cr

Re: Dpkg problems

> Again, could: > > http://bugs.debian.org/95981 > > have anything to do with this? It likely does, but I am unable to recompile dpkg as I can't install gettext.

Re: Dpkg problems

I'm now having problems with dpkg complaining about Available: and Size: fields from my /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should I just get rid of them? Or, as I asked before, is there a way to regenerate my status file so it complies? Interestingly, I tried to recompile dpkg with the patch mentioned previous

Re: Dpkg problems

Alright, so, with the help of many people on the list and my own perusal of my lost+found, I've discovered that my problem is indeed the fact that I'm missing my status file. The one I found is broken, but I have an older version on a backup. Anyone know of a way to regenerate my status file? Even

Re: Dpkg problems

> Did you check whether the contents of /var/lib/dpkg are intact (specifically, > the status file and info/*.list)? The status file exists but is empty, and the info/*.list seem to be intact.

Re: Dpkg problems

> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > > situation: > > Maybe try strace'ing it (of course if you have strace installed)? In this reply, I'm replying to

Dpkg problems

I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed situation: dpkg -i foo Segmentation fault Dselect: Update Okay Dselect: Select Segmentation fault dpkg --unpack foo Segmentation fault dpkg --help Okay What can I do? I downloaded

Path modification

is should go to. If it belongs on debian-policy alone and not debian-devel, please respond only on the former. Jon Eisenstein