On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:34:21 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:08:22 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> >>> I have three separate machines that have identical entries in >>> /etc/apt/sources.list. All were updated and upgraded this morning as a >>> result of troubleshooting this issue. On machine #1 I can apt-cache show >>> nhfsstone and it returns the expected data on nhfsstone. On machines 2 >>> and 3 it tells me that the nhfsstone package cannot be found. Running >>> apt-cache search nfs on all machines yeilds similar results. Machine #1 >>> has nhfsstone included in the result set. Machines 2 and 3 do not. All >>> machines are pointed to: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sid main >>> contrib non-free. This just makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm >>> pointing all three to the same set of repositories and yet two machines >>> cannot find a software package the other machine finds. I realize that >>> all machines may not see exactly the same server every time, but to have >>> a package being found on one machine and missing on two others seems very >>> strange. >>> >>> Can anyone explain this anomaly this to me? >> >> It seems to me that nhfsstone is no longer in Sid. >> >> My guess is that machine #1 has it only as a local package. What is the >> output of "apt-cache policy nhfsstone" on this machine? >> >> > Thanks Florian, > > It is reported as installed, which it is. However, since it was installed > and the present time I have run "apt-get clean" so the package no longer > exists in the local apt archives.
But it is still listed by apt-cache as "100 /var/lib/dpkg/status" for the currently installed version, right? > Does this mean that apt-cache reads the local database + the server > repositories rather than the just the server repositories? I tend to see > that as a bug, not a feature, as it leads people, such as me, to believe a > package which was installed at some time in the past on the local machine > still exists in the repositories when it has, in fact, been removed. I think many people would not like it if apt-cache no longer found the local packages, custom kernels, etc. If a package is still installed then its information is included in apt's package cache, and "apt-cache" bases all its results on this cache. It does not query the repositories at all but it gets this information indirectly whenever you run "apt-get update" (or aptitude, etc.). If you want to run queries on what is available in the repositories you will probably have to use "apt-file" or "rmadison" (from package "devscripts"). -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
