Re: dpkg database rebuild

2005-09-11 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Ritesh. On Sep 12 2005, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the > dpkg database, will it work ? Well, if you copy the whole filesystem tree (from root, but possibly ommitting /proc /tmp and /mnt or /media), then everything should w

Re: dpkg database rebuild

2005-09-11 Thread Joe Smith
Hello People, If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the dpkg database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the packages installed ? If you copy the filesystem and it includes /var then dpkg should be perfectly happy. Regards, rrs -- To UNSU