Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

[Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@dantian.org>]

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote:
> 'dpkg -p' lists whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/available; 'dpkg -l' lists
> whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/status. 

Uh, for me (dpkg 1.9.21) man says -l lists available, and -p 

dpkg  -p|--print-avail package
	Display details about package, as found in
	/var/lib/dpkg/available.

dpkg -l | --list package-name-pattern ...
	List packages matching given pattern. If no 
	package-name-pattern is given, list all packages 
	in /var/lib/dpkg/available.