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Re: vrms on non-free



On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:30:21PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:57:23PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > its actually not a problem in vrms, but rather that the status file
> > does not tend to get things like section updated properly.  i guess
> > this would be a bug in dselect or apt? or dpkg?
> 
> apt-get does not normally update dpkg's available file, presumably for 
> efficiency reasons or something.  Does vrms look in the status file or
> in the available file?

the status file, dselect update did not fix the descrepencies for me,
i think i just edited status myself to fix it... 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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