Re: repairing damage to package manager

From	Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: repairing damage to package manager
Date	2017-03-25 20:10 +0100
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songbird:
> Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>> 
>> One more O.T. observation: Debian let me do a truly dumb thing, but I
>> wouldn't have it any other way.
> 
>   who here hasn't done an erroneous rm or some
> other fumble fingered thing?
> 
>   a few weeks ago i was working on tagging some
> pictures and didn't notice that i had selected 
> 9000 of them instead of the few i intended.  then
> i deleted the tags.  there is no way to interrupt
> this.  oops.  i had to go find the backup files 
> and restore the database which held the tags.

Good point. I cannot stress the need for backups enough. Every couple of
months someone approaches me because they have important data on a dying
disk. Right now it hit my best man who should really know better.

(No, uninstalling apt would not be covered by my backups either. But as
we have seen, you can recover from issues like this easily in many
cases. :))

J.
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repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 16:40 +0100
  Re: repairing damage to package manager Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-24 16:50 +0100
    Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 17:00 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 17:00 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-24 20:30 +0100
        Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 20:40 +0100
  Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 16:50 +0100
  Re: repairing damage to package manager Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-24 20:50 +0100
    Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 21:00 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-24 22:20 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 12:20 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-25 19:20 +0100
        Re: repairing damage to package manager Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-25 20:10 +0100

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