hello all,
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the same
available packages.
explanation: i just built a new system, and scp'd over the sources.list file
from an older machine. both machines have the same /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
same
available packages.
have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think the
problem is that dpkg only lists the files from the package list
begin: Hereward Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
same
available packages.
have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think the
problem is
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
just tried it -- i think you're right. imho, this goes beyond
inelegance,
and borders on a bug that needs to be fixed. it's unthinkable that
there are
two databases of available packages which are out of sync everytime we
choose
Peter Jay Salzman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
begin: Hereward Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
same
available packages.
have you
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:21:39PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
begin: Hereward Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
same available packages.
have you tried
Colin Watson wrote:
I wish, though, that apt-get would tell you that it hasn't updated
dpkg's database. The 'apt-get update' versus 'dselect update' thing is
an incredibly frequently asked question.
I wish apt-get update (and more generally the internal update functions
that are used by all
On September 24, 2001 12:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
begin: Hereward Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
same
available packages.
have you tried running
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
maintains more complex package list information than can be represented
in dpkg's available file (especially if you have apt set to use multiple
distributons at the same time, etc).
Yeap, pretty much.
I find this very unsatisfactory. Yes, generating
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