From 4d6fcb1dddd5654e7ba8bfa2705bbb4f2c4a6884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 11:48:43 +0100
Subject: dselect: Pass available file from stdin to dpkg --update-avail

The dpkg --update-avail command has supported reading from stdin since
dpkg 1.17.7. This removes a temporary file which can be very big
nowadays.
---
 dselect/update | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'dselect/update')

diff --git a/dselect/update b/dselect/update
index 0ab317ee4..057e26e65 100755
--- a/dselect/update
+++ b/dselect/update
@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ STATUS=1
 if $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" update
 then
     echo $"Merging available information"
+    # XXX: Make sure we remove an old intermediate file that we used to feed
+    # to dpkg, until enough time has passed that we have some guarantee it
+    # is no longer left over in the cache directory (since apt 2.9.x).
     rm -f $CACHEDIR/available
-    $APTCACHE dumpavail > $CACHEDIR/available
-    $DPKG "$DPKG_OPTS" --update-avail $CACHEDIR/available
-    rm -f $CACHEDIR/available
+    $APTCACHE dumpavail | $DPKG "$DPKG_OPTS" --update-avail
 
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