Bug#146289: dpkg --list does not print packages sometimes
Cannot reproduce on my system, unstable updated daily.
Perhaps you need to run dselect update or somehow you have corrupted
your available file?
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:25:31PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.9.20
> Severity: important
>
> `dpkg -l regexp' does not correctly print all the packages in the Debian
> server which match the regexp.
>
> For example:
>
> eminescu:~$ dpkg -l gnu\*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> un gnu-standards <none> (no description available)
> ii gnugo 3.2-1 Plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi).
> ii gnumeric 1.0.6-1 A GNOME spreadsheet application
> un gnumeric-doc <none> (no description available)
> un gnumeric-gda <none> (no description available)
> un gnumeric-pytho <none> (no description available)
> un gnupg <none> (no description available)
> un gnupg-doc <none> (no description available)
> ii gnuplot 3.7.2-4 A command-line driven interactive plotting p
> un gnuserv <none> (no description available)
> un gnutls <none> (no description available)
>
> Another example:
>
> eminescu:~$ dpkg -l gnuc\*
> No packages found matching gnuc*.
>
> However, the gnuchess package, for example, exists!
>
> I use this method to find out if a package mathing a regexp exists or not.
>
> In previous versions of dpkg (the one of the stable version, 1.6.15),
> this bug does not appear.
>
> Eugen
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux eminescu 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
>
> Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
> ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
>
>
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