On 2011-05-17 14:28:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > AFAIK apt calls dpkg to do the actual package installation, but other > then that they are quite disconnected. I see no reason for apt to touch > /var/lib/dpkg/available or /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
OK. > What exactly are you trying to achieve? An upgrade was failing with: dpkg: error: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) So, I thought that dpkg expected to find something in it. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
