Quoting William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:22:50AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > I have edited /var/lib/dpkg/status to recover from a b0rked system after > a > > power outage in the middle of a fairly big dist-upgrade. Just be > careful, > > as you have the potential to really hose dpkg's idea of what is on your > > system. > > I'll show you the bit I want to edit out: > begins... > present in the `icu' and `icu-locales` packages. > > Package: fglrx-4.3.0-kernel-2.6.9 > Status: purge ok not-installed > Priority: extra > Section: non-free/x11 > Architecture: i386 > > Package: unrar > ....continues > > I want to remove the middle bit, related to fglrx-4.3.0-kernel-2.6.9. > Just chomp it out? > > It also appears in status-old.
Doesn't seem like it would be a problem. I would say, though, that the correct behavior for vrms is to ignore the package. If you have purged it, all traces a presumably gone. Thus, the package is no longer there. I would recommend filing a bug report. -Roberto Sanchez ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]