Yes, rather tedious, I'm in the process now. I started to build my clean environment with stable packages only. As this ist taking days anyway, I'll have additional backups meanwhile, when I switch over to unstable. So I can detect if the unstable packages where in charge of braking my installation.
Thanks for the hints for the time being. Am 14.03.11 01:27, schrieb Alexander Hansen: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/13/11 5:36 PM, Moritz Kaiser wrote: >> Hello Alexander, >> >> Removing the Packages.gz and _sw_...Packages and executing fink >> scanpackages didn't help. >> apt-get yields the same errors. >> >> <meta> >> I'm sorry for breaking the thread, but my Thunderbird just crashed and >> annihilated my local copies oft the last 5 mails, so I could not respond >> to them. >> </meta> >> > Hmm...I'm not sure what the best option is here. > > When I had this problem on one of my machines, I did the following: > > 1) I captured a list of my installed packages as per > > http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/starting-anew/ > > 2) I cleaned my Fink installation down to essential packages as per > > http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:CleanBuild > > (switching /sw2 to /sw) > > 3) I ran "fink cleanup --dpkg-status" to simplify my > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status file. > > 4) I looked in /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status for deviations in the Status > from either "installed ok installed" or "purge ok not-installed" > > 5) Once I removed all of those, I restored my Fink installation by > passing the list of installed packages to "fink install", also as in > http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/starting-anew/ > > > However, that was a tedious process. > > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk19YOIACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+CtQCfVO5qJI1RKqMfcAM6UCOCqbpN > afwAn0aacQYDwysKLcViRDJGqtCGSN5P > =HbI3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
