Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.18 Severity: minor On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:07:07AM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote: > > 'dpkg -p' lists whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/available; 'dpkg -l' > > lists whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/status. > > Uh, for me (dpkg 1.9.21) man says -l lists available, and -p > > dpkg -p|--print-avail package > Display details about package, as found in > /var/lib/dpkg/available. > > dpkg -l | --list package-name-pattern ... > List packages matching given pattern. If no > package-name-pattern is given, list all packages > in /var/lib/dpkg/available.
By experimentation, this is wrong. It should say "/var/lib/dpkg/status" for -l. (In current versions this is in the dpkg-query(8) man page instead, but the mistake is still there.) $ mkdir tmp/dpkgadmin $ cd tmp/dpkgadmin $ cp /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/status . $ mkdir updates $ dpkg-query --admindir=. -l | wc -l 796 $ mv available available.tmp $ touch available $ dpkg-query --admindir=. -l | wc -l 796 $ mv available.tmp available $ mv status status.tmp $ touch status $ dpkg-query --admindir=. -l | wc -l 0 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
