Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-15 Thread David
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:12:38PM -0800, C. Chad Wallace wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote: > >On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote: > It says the same for me in the man page for dpkg-query(8), but when I do > a dpkg -l, all the packages listed are either 'ii' (meaning selected and > inst

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-14 Thread C. Chad Wallace
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

Bug#232639: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
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

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 f

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:43:34PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Is it a bug that > > dpkg -p kernel-source-2.6.2 > > shows information about kernel-source-2.6.2 while > > dpkg -l kernel-source-2.6.2 > > claims the Version is and the Description is (no description > available)? It

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-13 Thread Jan Suchy
Shaul Karl wrote: Is it a bug that dpkg -p kernel-source-2.6.2 shows information about kernel-source-2.6.2 while dpkg -l kernel-source-2.6.2 claims the Version is and the Description is (no description available)? It looks like dpkg -l refers only to packages that are installed

Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-13 Thread Shaul Karl
Is it a bug that dpkg -p kernel-source-2.6.2 shows information about kernel-source-2.6.2 while dpkg -l kernel-source-2.6.2 claims the Version is and the Description is (no description available)? It looks like dpkg -l refers only to packages that are installed, which is not th