Re: 'auto-apt search' vs 'dpkg -L'
On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:30 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will
> > sometimes produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g.
> > $ auto-apt search pa_sml
> > $ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml
> > /usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo
> >
> > Why?
>
> auto-apt, like apt needs to have update run every now and then. Perhaps
> auto-apt's database is slightly out of date on your system?
>
> auto-apt also only knows what is in the debian server's Contents file. So
> if you grab packages from non-Debian mirrors who do not have this file you
> may miss results.
The only non-debian server in my sources.list is
ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian/, and AFAIK it's just a mirror. Also I ran
the above commands right after "updating and upgrading".
Alec
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