Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is
> > > configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not
> > > the other way round.
> > >
> > > Arguably it shouldn't be that way, but there are a number of complicated
> > > historical reasons.
> >
> > I'm not clear what you mean by a superset. In the past, running "apt-get
> > update" was enough to produce a list of things to be upgraded. Has
> > something changed?
>
> 'apt-get update' has never updated dpkg's available file. Very likely
> you just never noticed this before.
>
> > If we need to run "dselect update" as well,
>
> If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
> run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
> need to run 'apt-get update' as well.
>
> I do find it rather strange that this fixed your original problem,
> though, considering that you said you were just using apt-get. I only
> suggested 'dselect update' because you pointed out that
> /var/lib/dpkg/available was empty.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
I find it odd too; I had a script which ran "apt-get update" followed by
"apt-get dist-upgrade" and for many months that worked correctly.
However, I shall now change to "dselect update".
Anthony
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