Re: vrms on non-free

[hilliard@adelphia.net (Robert D. Hilliard)]

Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:

> 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?
> 
> dpkg's available database can be updated with apt's stuff with:
> 	apt-cache dumpavail > foo
> 	dpkg --update-avail foo
> (and then rm foo, of course :)

     While this does update /var/lib/dpkg/available, it doesn't help
since vrms apparently uses /var/lib/dpkg/status.

     Is there an easy way to update the ../status file?

Bob
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