Re: Strange apt problem

[John Smith <netman1@home.nl>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 21:55, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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".

Thanks.

Jan.