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? dpkg's available database can be updated with apt's stuff with: apt-cache dumpavail > foo dpkg --update-avail foo (and then rm foo, of course :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification