On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcía Pacheco wrote:
Hello,
Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working
with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud
of myself ;-)).
Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian 1.3.1. release.
Eagerly :-) I began updating packages, installing this, purging that,...
In the middle of the fun, it ocurred to me that it could be interesting
to have the new dpkg package(s) on my system. So I installed
dpkg1.4.0.8.deb, dpkg_cross_0.1.deb, dpkg -dev_1.4 and dpkg_ftp_1.9.8,
well the dpkg-related packages appearing in my new distribution.
A few days ago, I ran 'dpkg -l' and I got a message reading something
like 'problems while parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available'. I realized that
this database was corrupted!. Lots of package info lines were repeated
even twice or more times. I tried to restore it (by hand) and finally I
achieved to leave it operative (that means I can do dpkg -l, -s,
-iGOEB, --purge,... ) but there are still repeated lines (that someday I
will have to delete).
The question is : is there somebody out there with an idea of what
happened in my sistem?. Could it happen again and under what
circunstances?.
Maybe a corrupted Packages file was installed?
If it is only available that got messed up, then it shouldn't be too bad.
Every day I do:
dpkg --update-avail Packages
dpkg --merge-avail Non-Free
dpkg --merge-avail Contrib
dpkg --merge-avail Non-US
(Non-Free etc are the Packages.gz files (uncompressed) from the non-free
section). The first line replaces available with the Packages file, the
other three lines add the other packages in.
PS: Please only post to one mailing list - debian-user is the right one in
this case.
Adrian
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