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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 00:28:22 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Distribution issues
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> > Things get ugly if you install with method (2), but then uninstall
> > using 'rm @manifest/blah.mft'.
> 
> Perhaps zippo should have some kind of recovery for those cases,
> whereby it detects them and updates its database.

Yes, it should. It's on the to-do list. zippo's '--syncdb' option is the
one that would do this. It currently copes with packages installed behind
zippo's back, but not uninstalled packages. I don't know when this will be
fixed.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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