On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:55:29PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:06:20 +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > >On Wednesday 13 March 2002 21:58, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Perhaps you're updating with 'apt-get update' rather than 'dselect > >> update', and then using some tool (like 'dpkg -p' or dselect) that > >> expects dpkg's available database to be up to date? > > > >exactly. > >I didn't eaven know that dselect uses a difrent DB... > >I did a deselect update and everything was perfect. > > OK, I am confused (not an unusual state). Would dselect update cover > for apt-get update? Or, should both be done?
If dselect is configured to use apt as its access method (which is the default these days), then 'dselect update' does an 'apt-get update' itself and uses its output to update /var/lib/dpkg/available. > On a further note, do I understand correctly that apt-get update updates > the current installed base, while dselect update updates all packages? No. Both download the lists of all available packages. (Don't confuse 'update' with 'upgrade'.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
