On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:30 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote: > > Hi > > > > I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will > > sometimes produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g. > > $ auto-apt search pa_sml > > $ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml > > /usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo > > > > Why? > > auto-apt, like apt needs to have update run every now and then. Perhaps > auto-apt's database is slightly out of date on your system? > > auto-apt also only knows what is in the debian server's Contents file. So > if you grab packages from non-Debian mirrors who do not have this file you > may miss results.
The only non-debian server in my sources.list is ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian/, and AFAIK it's just a mirror. Also I ran the above commands right after "updating and upgrading". Alec