On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:23:52PM -0700, Mircea Luca wrote:
> apt-get update dselect
>
> then go back and try SPM.
> SPM looks more like a interface to dselect(I may be wrong here but I
> don't think so) but anyway dselects database and apt-get's ones get
> sometimes out of sync and syncing them is a good idea and may solve your
> problems.
> Basically the culprit here is apt with came with it's own databse
> as opposed to dselect who uses dpkg's database if apt-get method is
> not selected.
> It's not very clear since I'm not totally clear about it but as a
> very general idea this is how things are .
The first version of stormpkg was written in C and based on libdpkg which
was removed from the dpkg package about a day after stormpkg was
initially released. This means that the first version did use dselect's
own database, so you had to update it separately (but dselect would
update stormpkg's data and vice versa).
The latest version (2.0+) was ported to C++ to be compatible with libapt,
and is now written for it instead of libdpkg, so it uses the same
database as "apt-get".
BTW: The command to activate dselect package selections is "apt-get
dselect-upgrade". :)
Simon-
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