Re: apt-get update or dselect update
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, ... wrote:
>
> If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the
> preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run
> apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect
> and dpkg -l <package name or regexp>
No, but it will update the Packages files. If you then run [U]pdate in
dselect, it will check the files against those at the specified mirror(s)
and if they are the same, it will not retrieve them again, but will then
process the necessary files for dselect. Running update from dselect
itself is probably preferable.
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