Re: dselect thinks it is not installed....

2002-08-20 Thread Joss Winn
no, I've not been hacking. I did upload sources for testing which seemed to become mixed up with stable and testing sources showed dselect as a separate package. Here's how it looks on stable/woody: linux:~# dpkg -S `whereis dselect` dpkg: *dselect:* not found. dpkg: /usr/bin/dselect dpkg: /usr/

Re: dselect thinks it is not installed....

2002-08-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:46, Michel Dänzer wrote: > It probably isn't, then. :) dselect used to be in the dpkg package, it only > became its own package after Woody. Hmm...but dpkg still Pre-Depends on dselect, so unless Joss hacked his dpkg package, something is screwy...

Re: dselect thinks it is not installed....

2002-08-19 Thread Joss Winn
All is OK now. I did a dpkg --clear-avail and started a fresh source.list and all the dependencies were sorted out. there is something very uncomfortable about a broken woody... joss On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:46:55AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:02, Joss Winn

Re: dselect thinks it is not installed....

2002-08-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:02, Joss Winn wrote: > I changed my sources.list file last night to include testing and > then decided to change it back to how it was (stable). > > dselect then wanted to change a few things which looked harmless enough. > > now, if i 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade'

dselect thinks it is not installed....

2002-08-19 Thread Joss Winn
I changed my sources.list file last night to include testing and then decided to change it back to how it was (stable). dselect then wanted to change a few things which looked harmless enough. now, if i 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade' everything looks fine and 0 packages need installing/removi