Re: apt-get update: nothing downloaded from a mirror
On 2011-05-17 14:28:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> AFAIK apt calls dpkg to do the actual package installation, but other
> then that they are quite disconnected. I see no reason for apt to touch
> /var/lib/dpkg/available or /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
OK.
> What exactly are you trying to achieve?
An upgrade was failing with:
dpkg: error: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
So, I thought that dpkg expected to find something in it.
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