Re: yiff

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On 2004-05-16 Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 07:14:37AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 
> > You have not run dselect on this machine since it was upgraded from
> > stable to testing. - "apt-get upgrade" does not update
> > /var/lib/dpkg/available, type "dselect update" instead, if you wannt
> > to play with grep-available.

> Thankyou. I found this out on IRC. I thought dselect was completely
> redundant since APT (I haven't used it in years).

It is not. dselect e.g. offers conflict resolving, something apt
cannot offer. (aotitude could)

> Is this the only way to get the available file updated?

You should be able to manually invoke /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update
(it is shell script) instead of letting dselect do this, but I cannot
see the point.  "dselect update"'s single purpose is to keep
/var/lib/dpkg/available up to date.
                 cu andreas

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