On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:12:38PM -0800, C. Chad Wallace wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> >On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote:
> It says the same for me in the man page for dpkg-query(8), but when I do
> a dpkg -l, all the packages listed are either 'ii' (meaning selected and
> installed) or 'rc' (meaning removed, but not purged--IOW, they were once
> installed). This couldn't possibly be all available packages for
> debian/testing because, for instance, I'm not using X and never have on
> that machine.
>
> So it appears Colin is right in saying that dpkg -l gets its information
> from /var/lib/dpkg/status, not .../available. The documentation must be
> wrong.
After experimenting a little, it appears that, if you specify a package
name, it "first" looks in dpkg/status, and if it doesn't find it there
then looks in available. Note the following (some parts cut for
clarity)..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy mutt
mutt:
Installed: 1.5.5.1-20040105+1
Candidate: 1.5.5.1-20040105+1
Version Table:
1.5.5.1-20040112+1 0
120 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
*** 1.5.5.1-20040105+1 0
900 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l mutt
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii mutt 1.5.5.1-200401 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME,
GPG,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l "mutt*"
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii mutt 1.5.5.1-200401 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME,
GPG,
un mutt-i <none> (no description available)
pn mutt-ja <none> (no description available)
pn mutt-utf8 <none> (no description available)
pn muttprint <none> (no description available)
pn muttprint-manu <none> (no description available)
pn muttprofile <none> (no description available)
pn muttzilla <none> (no description available)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l mutt-ja
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn mutt-ja <none> (no description available)
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