Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 06:10:16PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some > > disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and > > then overwrote them with an

Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some > disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and > then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which > unfortunately lacked the patch). > > I

Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some > disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and > then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which > unfortunately lacked the patch). > > I wanted to dpkg -i my_

Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-29 Thread mody
Hi! If the old-deb do no magic during instalation, You can copy the content of the deb where You need. Nasty but works. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-27 Thread Ross Boylan
My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which unfortunately lacked the patch). I wanted to dpkg -i my_old.deb (that will work, even for a downgrade, won't