Re: APT 0.1.9 (yes, 0.1.9!) is released!

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On 6 Nov 1998, Steve Dunham wrote:

> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> 
> > $ dpkg --print-avail afterstep
> 
> This fits the second request with one exception: "apt-get update"
> doesn't update /var/lib/dpkg/available.  (That why I suggested using
> the available cache.)  Assuming "/var/lib/dpkg/available" were
> updated, a simple perl script, using "Dpkg::Package" would do the
> trick.  

Just set up dselect to use the apt method, and run dselect update instead
of apt-get update :)

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