[Bug 876794] Re: /var/lib/dpkg/available not updated correctly

[Hadmut Danisch]

No, did not solve. On one of my older (and upgraded to oneiric) machines
/var/lib/dpkg/available is about 4MB large and contains about 4428
packages.

On the other machine with a freshly installed oneiric it just is just
432KB large and contains 445 packages.

BTW, the hint with xubuntu-desktop is wrong and completely misses the
point. It is wrong because the *-desktop packages contain much more and
change the genereal appearance to turn the machine into a xubuntu or
kubuntu or whatever machine, and they are mutually exclusive (or used to
be). For getting just the XFCE functions, these are not the correct
packages.

However, this completely misses the point, because the xubuntu-desktop
package isn't in the available file either, and whether the xfce package
is the right one or not is absolutely irrelevant for the fact that it
should be contained in the available file.

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Title:
  /var/lib/dpkg/available not updated correctly

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I just installed a notebook freshly with oneiric alternate installer
  386.

  Problem: I tried to installed the package xfce4 , but the Ubuntu
  Software Center does not know it and it does not appear in
  /var/lib/dpkg/available

  Interestingly, the package is known by apt-cache, appears in
  /var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_oneric_universe_binary-i386_Packages and can be
  installed with apt-get install.

  Furthermore, apt-get update works, but /var/lib/dpkg/available still
  has the timestamp of the installation time.

  The problem seems to be that /var/lib/dpkg/available is not updated.

  apt-get update does not even recreate /var/lib/dpkg/available if it is removed.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011)
  Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Tags:  oneiric running-unity
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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