On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 06:39:32PM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > > The fact that dpkg pays attention to the available file at all is a bug; > > > it should only care about the state of the system and not about external > > > repositories. Only higher level package managers like apt and dselect > > > should do that. > [...] > The only important information might be the Section and Priority fields, > which are usually overriden and used to create roostraps or select what's > the base system, etc. But on the other hand I think all programs doing > that are using the archive Packages files for that purpose, so I guess > it's fine to apply this patch. > [...] > > Yeah seems reasonable, will review and merge.
Please could you do this? I have frequently had problems where dpkg seems to have corrupted the available database (as reported by someone else in bug#303030); if dpkg does not look at this database, then such problems can be avoided. (The source of bug#303030 is a separate matter entirely, though.) Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
