Defresne Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> 3. status of the system and updates >> >> are dselect and apt-get's knowledge of installed packages, package status, >> available packages and provided files the same as each other? > > I guess, since they both use dpkg.
apt keeps its own cache of package status, which is in a format that it can read faster than dpkg can read its own. Unless something has gone badly wrong, though (or, in the case of available packages, if you've used 'apt-get update' rather than 'dselect update'), they will be in sync. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
