All packages Obsolete/local in dselect?

[Pete Harlan <harlan@pointofchoice.com>]

Hi,

All of my installed packages show up as Obsolete/local packages when
using dselect:

    ------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base -------
 *** Req base     adduser      3.8         <none>
 *** Req base     ae           962-21.1    <none>
 *** Req base     base-files   2.1.0       <none>
 *** Req base     base-passwd  2.0.3.3     <none>
...

I've seen this before when switching to the 'apt' method in dselect,
and going back to 'ftp' has always solved it, but no more.  I deleted
my /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/ packages files and redownloaded them but
to no avail.

I'm running slink, upgraded from hamm.  I've seen this happen with
'apt' on several machines, but only just saw it from 'ftp' too.

Any ideas how I would go about resolving this?

Thanks,

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Pete Harlan
harlan@pointofchoice.com