Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:03:07AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:22:47PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:28AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > > Question a

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:22:47PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:28AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't > > > corres

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:28AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't > > correspond to a package): Are they a bug or is there nothing wrong with > > them? On my sys

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't > correspond to a package): Are they a bug or is there nothing wrong with > them? On my system I have the following false positives: > > debian-reference-en, de

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >>Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a > >>backup of /var/lib/dpkg... > >> > >>http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0113.petreley.html > > > > > >Funny, I w

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a backup of /var/lib/dpkg... http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0113.petreley.html Funny, I walked someone through that on irc.debian.org:#debian last week. This can be somewhat simplified from Nick's

Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
This was mentioned in this week's DWN. Looking at Nick's method, I've suggested (but not tested) some improvements. Note that _all_ that is recovered here is package state. Your logs, www, spool directories, game status (!), etc., are *gone*. > Here is a good article about recovering a Debian