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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2016-10-30 17:22:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2016-10-30 20:14:30 +0100 |
| commit | 4c379a6e218ad96185c2abdb074bf37def13dfd4 (patch) | |
| tree | 66ecf9139b4093d81ee8a749a680674930800172 /src | |
| parent | 109d819c409ba6f8013787da372f0565d4d3c214 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-4c379a6e218ad96185c2abdb074bf37def13dfd4.tar.gz | |
dpkg: Give more information on --set-selections warnings
Mention that the package cannot be found on the status nor available
database, and that to the FAQ.
Closes: #842230
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/select.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/select.c b/src/select.c index 27d530708..8d8844905 100644 --- a/src/select.c +++ b/src/select.c @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ setselections(const char *const *argv) if (!pkg_is_informative(pkg, &pkg->installed) && !pkg_is_informative(pkg, &pkg->available)) { db_possibly_outdated = true; - warning(_("package not in database at line %d: %.250s"), lno, namevb.buf); + warning(_("package not in status nor available database at line %d: %.250s"), lno, namevb.buf); continue; } @@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ setselections(const char *const *argv) if (db_possibly_outdated) warning(_("found unknown packages; this might mean the available database\n" - "is outdated, and needs to be updated through a frontend method")); + "is outdated, and needs to be updated through a frontend method;\n" + "please see the FAQ <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ>")); return 0; } |