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Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu



Hi,

At 04:45 PM 7/11/97 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote:

>However, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the paragraph
>about the "base" package, and that will effectively purge it.
>Forcing dpkg to remove the package removes all of the files in /dev.
>It's my error, sorry.

But removing this paragraph by hand will still leave the files

base.conffiles
base.list
base.postinst

in /var/lib/dpkg/info, right?

Regards,

E.-


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