dpkg bug (was: Missing: sqlite packages)

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:08:47PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Sounds like 'dselect update' is required. This is basically the result
> > of an old disagreement between the respective authors of dpkg and apt,
> 
> Ooooh, I remember that now you mention it.  But dpkg seems to behave
> more sanely on some recently installed machines where I've never run
> dselect, having switched my allegiance to aptitude.  Or does it?  I
> did have some odd things happen on that one Woody install where I
> skipped both tasks and dselect for some reason (and used only aptitude
> later).  Hmmmm...

tasksel used to update /var/lib/dpkg/available itself. You'll probably
notice strange behaviour as time goes on.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]