Re: 'apt-cache search' question #2

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:39:07 -0400 Travis Crump wrote:
> Bill Webster wrote:
> > 
> > Here's what I did:
> > 1) Emptied the sources.list file (0 length file)
> > 2) ran 'apt-get update'
> > 3) ran 'apt-cache search ".*"'
> > 
> > I get a list of 774 packages???
> 
> Let me guess, you have 774 packages installed?   apt-cache search has 
> always additionally searched locally installed packages for me and I 
> always thought that this was a useful feature.  Though I don't know
> how exactly it does this.

apt-cache must use the status file under /var/lib/dpkg, which contains
information on installed packages (even when they're already gone from
the Debian servers).

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Carlos Sousa
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