The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit af2524c23478134ca90d7990127205550c5d1d4d
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Jul 28 13:26:03 2013 +0200
dpkg(1): Document available database update procedure to set selections
Mention that the available database needs to be updated, refer to the
dpkg FAQ for more details, and add an example when using apt.
Suggested-by: Klaus Ita <[email protected]>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e878e04..3ac4068 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ dpkg (1.17.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Man pages cleanup:
- Make explicit that dpkg-shlibdeps -e can be used multiple times.
+ - Improve documentation on how to update the available database before
+ setting package selections. Suggested by Klaus Ita <[email protected]>.
* Add manpages-it Replaces to dpkg due to new translated man pages.
Reported by Alessio Gaeta <[email protected]>. Closes: #717983
* Reword libdpkg-perl description and only list public modules.
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 0ab88c4..60ea048 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
-.TH dpkg 1 "2013-04-05" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
+.TH dpkg 1 "2013-07-28" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
.SH NAME
dpkg \- package manager for Debian
.
@@ -800,8 +800,16 @@ To make a local copy of the package selection states:
\fB dpkg \-\-get\-selections >myselections\fP
.br
-You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it there
-with:
+You might transfer this file to another computer, and after having updated
+the available database there with your package manager frontend of choice
+(see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ for more details), for example:
+.br
+\fB avail=`mktemp`\fP
+\fB apt\-cache dumpavail >"$avail"\fP
+\fB dpkg \-\-merge\-avail "$avail"\fP
+\fB rm "$avail"\fP
+.br
+you can install it with:
.br
\fB dpkg \-\-clear\-selections\fP
\fB dpkg \-\-set\-selections <myselections\fP
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