Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Probably the best way to fix tasksel's bug #114721 (which our users > > stumble over again and again), as well as to remove a common FAQ would > > be for apt to get a post-update hook. Then dpkg or something else could > > drop a file into apt.conf.d to apt-cache dumpavail > /var/lib/dpkg/available > > Note, it doesn't dump straight to dpkg's available file. It uses an > intermediate file, and then tells dpkg to update /var/lib/dpkg/available with > that. It was a simplification for purposes of clarity. > dpkg itself will no longer be concerned with the list of available package > versions. It'll only be concerned with the status of installed packages. > > dselect, however, will need this information. How apt will update that is > still unknown. Well this seems like a reasonable way to do it. -- see shy jo
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