On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:15:24PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write: > > 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. > > Pardon the somewhat elementary question, but what is dpkg's available > file used for, and why would I need it to be up to date?
Package management interfaces that don't exclusively use the apt libraries, such as 'dpkg -p', 'dpkg -l', dselect, and tasksel. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
