Re: dselect troubles

1999-08-30 Thread Ron Forrester
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:13:53PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > The only problem with this method is that it will forget any holds you've > placed. Brad, thanks very much for such a specific set of steps. Unforunately, I went through them, and they didn't seem to make a difference. After doing the ste

Re: dselect troubles

1999-08-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Ron Forrester wrote: > My question is, is there anyway to reset the package cache (correct > terminology?) so that dselect is clean, i.e. does not believe there > are packages to remove and install -- preferrably sucj that I don't > have to

dselect troubles

1999-08-29 Thread Ron Forrester
I have somehow put dselect into a mode where it thinks there are many packages to be removed, and many to be installed -- it got like this despite the fact that I have not been through selecting packages for removal and installation. I believe it ended up like this as a result of my playing with