On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:19:30PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have been dealing with this issue for some time. I have a sid installation > & > apt quit showing any packages that were available for upgrade about 2 months > ago. I was using, for several years, kdepackage manager as my gui for > handeling all package management functions. When I decided to try synaptic & > aptitude, kdepackage quit showing the upgrades available. However synaptic > seemed to work OK. Today I upgraded apt-cacher, apt-build, & apt-file from > synaptic. After these were upgraded synaptic quit showing any upgradeable > packages, kde-package is not showing any & dselect is just nuts, it's showing > every thing installed is obsolete or local with no upgrades available either. > The fact is that every package on my systems seems to be working just fine > and all systems, & hardware are OK. > So anybody with ANY idea PLEASE respond. > -- > John Foster Hi John, you have found one of the inconsisencies of the various package manager: all of them do not keep states the same way. And when you use more than one package manager, the other get confused. I wish the maintainers would either use the same format for storing state informations or someone should develop a tool to syncronize them to avoid this package manger confusion. Cheers, Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! `$' $' $ $ _ ,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$$$$$b $,d$$b ,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ "' `$ $$' `$ $$ $ $$ggggg$ $ $ $ ,$P"" $ $ $ `$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $ $ `Y$$P'$. `Y$$$$P $$$P"' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$.
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