Re: dpkg funnies

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:57:12PM +0000, Pablo Baena wrote:
> We do need an option in dselect that, when you screw up your
> selections, it'd search your installed packages, and reset
> all the selections to the installed/not-installed flag according
> to what it sees. dselect rules until I make a stupid mistake and
> I have to see every single package to come back to the normal
> state.

I not infrequently "cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
/var/lib/dpkg/status".  It would be nice if dselect offered a way to
do this.

Andrew