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Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?



On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:15:24PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:
> > 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.
> 
> Pardon the somewhat elementary question, but what is dpkg's available
> file used for, and why would I need it to be up to date?

Package management interfaces that don't exclusively use the apt
libraries, such as 'dpkg -p', 'dpkg -l', dselect, and tasksel.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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