This is not related to the original question but the other question reminded me about my question :-)
A month or two ago I noticed a strange behavior with apt-cache search, first I noticed that it can return results for packages which can not be installed (no package available to install) and it can do the oposite of not showing any information about a package that is available for installation. I know next to nothing about the internals of apt and so I am only guessing as to what the problem might be. If I were to guess apt-cache uses so form of a database that it searches and that database do not alwas reflect the current state of the debian packages on the debian package site. Is this normal behavior or is this actually a bug in the system? Or is anyone even aware of this problem? I also noticed something else which I have not been able to explain. In the process of exporing the above issues I commented out all of the lines in the sources.list file and performed an 'apt-get update'. I expected all apt-cache searches to be unable to find any packages but there seemed to be a core list that is coded into apt-cache. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is there an explanation for this behavior? This appears to me to be odd behavior if apt is supposed to get it's list of source packages from the sources.list file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
