On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is > > configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not > > the other way round. > > > > Arguably it shouldn't be that way, but there are a number of complicated > > historical reasons. > > I'm not clear what you mean by a superset. In the past, running "apt-get > update" was enough to produce a list of things to be upgraded. Has > something changed?
'apt-get update' has never updated dpkg's available file. Very likely you just never noticed this before. > If we need to run "dselect update" as well, If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't need to run 'apt-get update' as well. I do find it rather strange that this fixed your original problem, though, considering that you said you were just using apt-get. I only suggested 'dselect update' because you pointed out that /var/lib/dpkg/available was empty. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
