Re: reiser?

["Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>]

Bingo.  Thanks.  I thought apt-get was using /var/lib/dpkg/available
or they were in sync.

Thanks,
  Robert

Thus spake Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org):

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:20:48AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > Ok, this is getting odd then:
> > 
> > vampire:/var/lib/dpkg 
> > root:{1}: grep -i reiser available
> [...]
> > No other mention of reiser in the available packages.  When I do the
> > apt-get install reiserfsprogs though it does install clean.  Why isn't
> > the package named in the available list?
> 
> Because 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file: they
> operate at different levels. Use 'dselect update' instead, which, if
> configured to use the apt access method (as it is by default these days)
> will run 'apt-get update' and then merge the results into
> /var/lib/dpkg/available.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 
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