On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: > When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages. > Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local packages?
It means that these packages are listed in the dpkg status database, but not in the available database. It is usually caused by packages being removed from the Packages file in the debian archive. If you build your own kernel-image.deb and install it, it will also be listed as obsolete/local, because your homebuilt deb is not known to the debian archive Packages file. Cheers, Joost
