Bug#153200: marked as done (dselect: update reports wrong "available" pathname)
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Subject: dselect: update reports wrong "available" pathname
From: "Phil Edwards" <phil@jaj.com>
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: minor
When doing a "dselect update", the following is reported:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Merging Available information
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
Except that there is no such file. The only 'available' on the system
is /var/lib/dpkg/available.
I briefly poked through the dpkg source but I can't figure out where the
updateavailable function is called from, so there's no patch included.
Sorry. :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux acorn 2.4.17 #1 Sun Jul 14 06:14:10 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-10 The GNU stdc++ library
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Subject: Re: Bug#153200: dselect: update reports wrong "available" pathname
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Phil Edwards wrote:
> When doing a "dselect update", the following is reported:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Merging Available information
> Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
>
> Except that there is no such file. The only 'available' on the system
> is /var/lib/dpkg/available.
>
> I briefly poked through the dpkg source but I can't figure out where the
> updateavailable function is called from, so there's no patch included.
> Sorry. :-)
Read the message again. It says 'Replacing ... using ...'. That means it
reads the file listed above, and uses the data it contains to replace the
existing available file.
It doesn't mean that it is using that file.
In more detail, you have apt configured as your access method in dselect.
apt's script for this create the above named file, as a temporary export of
the apt database into text form. It then tells dpkg to import the data, with
the above named temporary file. dpkg prints out the filename as it does so(or
maybe apt does, it doesn't really matter).
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