Re: dselect vs apt-get

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Defresne Sylvain <sylvain.defresne@enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
>* Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) wrote:
>> 3. status of the system and updates
>> 
>> are dselect and apt-get's knowledge of installed packages, package status,
>> available packages and provided files the same as each other?
>
>	I guess, since they both use dpkg.

apt keeps its own cache of package status, which is in a format that it
can read faster than dpkg can read its own. Unless something has gone
badly wrong, though (or, in the case of available packages, if you've
used 'apt-get update' rather than 'dselect update'), they will be in
sync.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]