Re: O/S upgrade - dpkg still shows old version for some packages
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 19:57 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote:
>
> dpkg -p is shows the available packages for dselect. Since apt and dselect
> uses different mechanisms for tracking package status, dselect's availability
> database (/var/lib/dpkg/available) is not getting updated, hence reflects
> initial installation status.
>
Wow! I know nothing about Debian's internals, but you're saying that one
command (dpkg) will use different mechanisms and which one is used depends on
the command options used. That seems really confusing!
>
> So I would suggest use "dpkg -s" for actual installed package status, and
> forget about dselect's idea of available packages (dpkg -p).
>
Okay, thanks for that. And thanks for the info generally.
John.
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