On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> maintains more complex package list information than can be represented
> in dpkg's available file (especially if you have apt set to use multiple
> distributons at the same time, etc).
Yeap, pretty much.
> I find this very unsatisfactory. Yes, generatin
On September 24, 2001 12:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
>
> > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
> > > same
> > > available packages.
> >
> > have
Colin Watson wrote:
> I wish, though, that apt-get would tell you that it hasn't updated
> dpkg's database. The 'apt-get update' versus 'dselect update' thing is
> an incredibly frequently asked question.
I wish apt-get update (and more generally the internal update functions
that are used by all
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:21:39PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
> > > same available packages.
> >
> > h
Peter Jay Salzman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> >
> > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
> > > same
> > > available packag
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> just tried it -- i think you're right. imho, this goes beyond
> inelegance,
> and borders on a bug that needs to be fixed. it's unthinkable that
> there are
> two databases of available packages which are out of sync everytime we
> c
begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>
> > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
> > same
> > available packages.
>
> have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think th
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the
> same
> available packages.
have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think the
problem is that dpkg only lists the files from the package list
hello all,
problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the same
available packages.
explanation: i just built a new system, and scp'd over the sources.list file
from an older machine. both machines have the same /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/de
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