Re: what is /var/lib/dpkg/available good for?
Hi,
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Using a foreign repository my /var/lib/dpkg/available got corrupted.
> The workaround was easy:
>
> echo -n "" >/var/lib/dpkg/available
>
> At the next upgrade time there was no visible slowdown, so I wonder
> what is this file good for?
It's mainly useful for dselect but dpkg still parses it although it
doesn't use it in any important way. There's a bug open about that
already.
Cheers,
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