Re: vrms on non-free
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:53:15PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> > > > 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?
>
> Yes. Thank you.
Ah, yes, dselect's [U]pdate, with apt method, basically runs apt-get update
followed by those two commands I wrote. apt-get(1) never mentions the dpkg
status file:
update update is used to resynchronize the package
overview files from their sources. The overviews of
available packages are fetched from the location(s)
specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. For example,
when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves
and scans the Packages.gz files, so that informa
tion about new and updated packages is available.
The User's Guide, chapter DSelect, says:
Before starting to use dselect it is necessary to update the available
list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a super-set of
apt-get update that makes the fetched information available to
dselect. [U]pdate must be performed even if apt-get update has been
run before.
It's not completely clear which of the dpkg database files gets updated with
what command. APT people, can this be improved, please?
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