On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 01:59 +0200, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > Sory for the long time I took to answer. Real Life (TM) has a way to > interfere ... > Doesn't it just. > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 15:06 +0200, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > > > >>dpkg -l no longer does report correctly available packages. > >> > > > > What happens if you run "dselect update" as root? > > It seems I have the same problem. I even saw this on a brand-new system > this afternoon. > > But I won't swear it before catching apt/dselect at being patently wrong. > Most people on brand-new systems tend to use apt and/or aptitude to manage their installed packages, and not dselect. APT doesn't update the dselect available file (why would it?) so those dpkg commands designed to read that don't function correctly anymore. My personal preference is to begin to deprecate these commands after sarge is out, leaving dpkg concerned with just the *installed* packages. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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