John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > probably not for debian-installer, but since I started my > install with it, I'll just try. > > After previous installs (woody, debian-installer sarge netboot) > I was allway able to run "dpkg -l '*'", which gave the total number of > packages apt was able to get. As of yesterday I'm not able to do that > any more on _new_ installs, but still can on older sarge installs > through d-i, where both, the older and the newer, point to the same > mirror, have the exact same sources.list and are 'apt-get update/ > graded'. The latest installs give after the first round of installs > about 425 packages, the older +-17000. Anybody able to reproduce this/ > knows what is going on? That dpkg -l command uses the available file, which is not updated in newer installs anymore, since so few things use it. You can update it yourself with the command "dselect update". Alternatively, use "apt-cache stats". -- see shy jo
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