On 2011-05-17 14:28:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > AFAIK apt calls dpkg to do the actual package installation, but other > then that they are quite disconnected. I see no reason for apt to touch > /var/lib/dpkg/available or /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
OK. > What exactly are you trying to achieve? An upgrade was failing with: dpkg: error: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) So, I thought that dpkg expected to find something in it. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110517164101.gd1...@prunille.vinc17.org
