Re: Package Info
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> You can read the packages status file for information from
> /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from
> your various apt sources, whether installed or not, and is somewhat more
> flexible than looking for the same information from dselect.
>
My impression is that the status file only contains info about packages
I ever expressed some interest in. My status file mentions 709 packages,
but the available file 2694.
All 'Status: ' lines with 'not-installed' in the status-file
say something like:
install OK not-installed
purge OK not-installed
hold OK not-installed
but never something like:
unknown .... not-installed
egbert
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