>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <adam@lapdoog.doogie.brainfood.com> writes:
Adam> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
>> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
>> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
>> (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK.
Adam> dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb, it will update the
Adam> entry in available.
If you say so, I believe it[1]. Though I wonder whatever dpkg does
that for... I don't see anything needing updating in the available
file. I thought the status file was the place for that...
Bye, J
[1] For the people on debian-user who don't know it: doogie is one of
the "brotherhood of dpkg/dselect hackers". So of course I believe one
who uses the source. ;-)
PS: Reduced the CC list somewhat... should this be kept on
debian-user? deity@lists.d.o I'm not subscribed to, and
apt@packages.d.o isn't even a regular list.
PPS: Heck, this is almost EOT anyway... ;-)
--
Jürgen A. Erhard (juergen.erhard@gmx.net, jae@users.sourceforge.net)
MARS: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html
"We must learn from our mistakes,
so we can make bigger and better ones." -- Bruce M Krawetz
Attachment:
pgpiUSMOtTVL2.pgp
Description: PGP signature