On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote: > Hi > > I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will sometimes > produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g. > $ auto-apt search pa_sml > $ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml > /usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo > > Why? >
auto-apt, like apt needs to have update run every now and then. Perhaps auto-apt's database is slightly out of date on your system? auto-apt also only knows what is in the debian server's Contents file. So if you grab packages from non-Debian mirrors who do not have this file you may miss results.
