On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 21:55, Joey Hess wrote: > John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > probably not for debian-installer, but since I started my > > install with it, I'll just try. > > > > After previous installs (woody, debian-installer sarge netboot) > > I was allway able to run "dpkg -l '*'", which gave the total number of > > packages apt was able to get. As of yesterday I'm not able to do that > > any more on _new_ installs, but still can on older sarge installs > > through d-i, where both, the older and the newer, point to the same > > mirror, have the exact same sources.list and are 'apt-get update/ > > graded'. The latest installs give after the first round of installs > > about 425 packages, the older +-17000. Anybody able to reproduce this/ > > knows what is going on? > > That dpkg -l command uses the available file, which is not updated in > newer installs anymore, since so few things use it. You can update it > yourself with the command "dselect update". Alternatively, use > "apt-cache stats".
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