On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:20:48AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Ok, this is getting odd then: > > vampire:/var/lib/dpkg > root:{1}: grep -i reiser available [...] > No other mention of reiser in the available packages. When I do the > apt-get install reiserfsprogs though it does install clean. Why isn't > the package named in the available list?
Because 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file: they operate at different levels. Use 'dselect update' instead, which, if configured to use the apt access method (as it is by default these days) will run 'apt-get update' and then merge the results into /var/lib/dpkg/available. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]