Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 30 Dec, Bart Warmerdam wrote about "Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive"
> On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote:
>> MoiN
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions
>> > I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib, 
>> > non-us/non-free), and went and checked wether all the dependencies
>> > can be satisfied. As it turns out, there are many packages referencing
>> > other non-existant packages.
>> 
>> You mean you did "apt-cache unmet"?
>> 
>> I get 94 Packages with unmet dependencies (please try "apt-cache unmet"
>> to see why):
> 
> Mmmm... What this tell me??
> 
> emperor:~# apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | tail -1
> 425:Package cxterm-jis version 5.1p1-3 has an unmet dep:
> 
> Only 425 packages with unmet dependencies... Nice!
> 

Try 'wc -l' and not 'tail -1', the line number from grep is counting all
the output lines and not just the matching Package lines.

# apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | tail -1
321:Package karchiveur version 0.52-1 has an unmet dep:
# apt-cache unmet | wc -l
    322
# apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | wc -l
    148


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