Re: vrms on non-free
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:02:49PM -0400, "Robert D. Hilliard" <hilliard@adelphia.net> was heard to say:
> > 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?
Does "dselect update" work?
Daniel
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