reassign 115720 apt
thanks
Oh get real wichert.
skywalker10{jgg}/tmp#sudo dpkg --merge-avail f
Updating available packages info, using f.
dpkg: parse error, in file `f' near line 11 package `dpkg':
empty file details field `MD5sum'
So you explain to me how a broken available file could have got past that.
This is a dpkg bug. It is the only thing that ever writes to the avaiable
file.
Jason