Re: Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-02-01 Thread Tech Geek
> > Jeffrey, > > >Don't know if there's automatic way. But one way you can try is to write a > >script to remove those sections whose "Status" is not "installed" in the > >file /var/lib/dpkg/status. > I thought about that but I wondering if APT package management has some > in-built way to do it au

Re: Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-29, Tech Geek wrote: > --00504502ce5da6db1a047e5657d2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > So I have been using my current Debian instalaltion for almost a year now > and over this time I have installed, purged and deinstalled a lot of > packages. It seems that the status

Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-01-29 Thread Tech Geek
So I have been using my current Debian instalaltion for almost a year now and over this time I have installed, purged and deinstalled a lot of packages. It seems that the status file maintains a list of all the packages and their current states that have been ever installed on the system since the