[plug] Reconstructing a Debian system

[Christian]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:04:22AM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
 I suspect you will get a lot of errors, as some of the prerm and postrm
> scripts may depend on some of the files in /usr/ being there.
> I've never tried it though, so it may work.

Hmmm... yeah, you're probably right.  I hadn't thought of that.  The
other thing is, will the directories be created if they're not already
there?  I think they will but I'm not really that familiar with the
internals of Debian packages.

> Personally I'd do "dpkg --get-selections > file.list", backup everything
> and do a fresh install, using "dpkg --set-selections < file.list" once you
> get to the "choose which packages you would like to install" phase.  Then
> copy back your /etc/ and /home/ directories (and anything else that
> should be there)

If I did something like:

apt-get --reinstall dist-upgrade

Maybe that would work?  If you're re-installing packages then
surely it doesn't make any assumptions about what's there currently.

Of course, the only problem now is...

diffie:~$ which dpkg apt-get
/usr/bin/dpkg
/usr/bin/apt-get

Ummm... :(
 
Maybe I *will* just do a complete re-install...

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