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Re: apt-move problem



On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > apt-move does not use dpkg-scanpackages (it used to, but not any more.)
> 
> Actually apt-move does use dpkg-scanpackages (and dpkg-scansources), but
> it caches their results so they're never run twice on the same package.
> 
> This occurs when apt-move first moves the packages in, which is why you must
> never move packages in by hand (at least not without doing an fsck later).

my apologies.. I was under the impression that the new method used dpkg -I
magic.

sorry for confusion.

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                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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