Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:53PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <joost@topaz.mdcc.cx> writes:
> Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
> Joost> dpkg available packages database.
>
> Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on apt-get dselect-upgrade
> just now to be sure, and nowhere does it access
> /var/lib/dpkg/available).
>
> It *will* use dselect's package status file for checking which
> packages should be installed, but it always does this anyway (both
> apt-get upgrade and apt-get dselect-upgrade open /var/lib/dpkg/status,
> according to strace).
You are completely right and I was talking bullshit. Apologies to the
list.
> PS: I wouldn't have reacted so strongly if a) you didn't walk around
> here with an aura of "I *always* know what I'm saying" and b) there
> hadn't been someone stating that you were one of the most
> knowledgeable people on this list. Sorry, but those factors just
> *call* for a "cutting down to size once in a while".
No need to cut my head off when I've been talking out of my ass.
Cheers,
Joost
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