On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, David Wright wrote:
> I think Bruce or some other god put together a posting which showed
> exactly what to do.
Here is that message:-
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 13 12:09:47 1998
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 16:45 PDT
From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 --
dselect and downgrading dosemu
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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.
Bruce
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