[Techtalk] dpkg --set-selections help

[Maria McKinley]

Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> When I used dpkg --get-selections from my old hard drive, somehow a 
> deinstall the kernel-image got in the list, and I didn't notice it until 
> I did set-selections on the new machine. Now I can't get rid of it from 
> the package selection list. Apparently some versions of dpkg have a 
> clear-selections option, but mine apparently does not. Anyone have any 
> ideas? I don't know why removing it from the list and doing 
> set-selections again did not work, but it didn't...
> 
> thanks,
> maria

Nevermind, instead of deleting the kerne-image deinstall line, I tried 
changing it to install instead, and then it seems to ignore it, since it 
is already installed. Weird though, I thought I was replacing what is in 
the selections list with set-selections, not adding to it.

~maria