On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:57:23PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > its actually not a problem in vrms, but rather that the status file > does not tend to get things like section updated properly. i guess > this would be a bug in dselect or apt? or dpkg? apt-get does not normally update dpkg's available file, presumably for efficiency reasons or something. Does vrms look in the status file or in the available file? Richard Braakman