Further to my previous post,
As far as I can find out dselect and dpkg use /var/lib/dpkg/available for
there package list but apt uses the various files in.........
/var/lib/apt/lists
on my system these are....
dl.google.com_linux_earth_deb_dists_stable_Release
dl.google.com_linux_earth_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg
dl.google.com_linux_earth_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_contrib_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_contrib_i18n_Translation-en
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_contrib_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_i18n_Translation-en
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff
I assume all use /var/lib/dpkg/status, because different lists are used the
system can get out of step. Further more it seems as apt is more likely
omit packages from its lists. I have never had dpkg and apt report the same
number of packages, you can get close, currently the list of installed
packages for both differs by 2 2815 for apt 2817 for dpkg.
Interestingly "apt-move sync" which is supposed to produce a local mirror
of all installed packages on your system only produced 2400 odd packages
for the above system. I have no idea what debians package system thinks
its doing.
Note: this is what I call "getting out of step", on an initial install all
the above numbers _nearly_ match.
Why anyone in debian though it was a great idea to have two separate
non-synced package lists is beyond "this little black duck".
Lindsay
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