[vox-tech] Debian Unstable - apt strangeness

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Matt Roper (matt at mattrope.com):

> I know that apt-get by itself won't touch /var/lib/dpkg/available

Oh?

uncle-enzo:~# cd /var/lib/dpkg
uncle-enzo:/var/lib/dpkg# ls -l available
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3809571 Aug  9 02:58 available
uncle-enzo:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update 
[snip]
Fetched 7999kB in 4m35s (29.0kB/s)                                             
Reading Package Lists... Done
uncle-enzo:/var/lib/dpkg# ls -l available
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3809571 Aug  9 02:58 available
uncle-enzo:/var/lib/dpkg#


Interesting.  I most certainly didn't ever notice that before.  Learn
something new every day!  So,  does apt-get update put new
available-packages data only in /var/lib/apt/lists, then?