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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Accident: deleted installed.db
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:59:10 -0000
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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:37, fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote:
>>  I really really don't want to have to start again ...
>> Thanks. Fergus
>
> Restore it from a backup.

Yeah, stupendously helpful answer, Robert! :-)

Anyway, Fergus, assuming /etc/setup/*.lst.gz are still intact, you could try
this:

cd /etc/setup
echo "INSTALLED.DB 2" > installed.db
ls *.lst.gz | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)\.lst\.gz$/\1 \1-0.tar.bz2 0/' >>
installed.db

Now run setup. It will see the installed version of each installed package
as "0", so it will want to reinstall every package - but, letting it do that
will be a lot quicker than reselecting all the packages manually.

Max.





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