+# It looks slightly ugly to have a double / in the dpkg output
+CACHEDIR=`echo $CACHEDIR | sed -e "s|/$||"`
+
+STATUS=1
+if $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" update
+then
+ echo $"Merging available information"
+ rm -f $CACHEDIR/available
+ $APTCACHE dumpavail > $CACHEDIR/available
+ $DPKG "$DPKG_OPTS" --update-avail $CACHEDIR/available
+ rm -f $CACHEDIR/available