On Sun, 25 May 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The "available" file is created by the apt dselect method using "apt-cache > dumpavail". Do you find something wrong in the output of this command when > you run it manually? Is the available file already corrupt before dselect > or dpkg tries to read it?
The available file is actually created by dpkg based on data from apt-cache dumpavail. apt-cache dumpavail does a direct byte for byte copy of portions of the files in var/lib/apt/lists so it isn't going to be mangling only the architecture field. IIRC there was a bug in older dpkg's that went something like this.. Jason
