[OpenWrt-Users] why do "ipkg list" and "ipkg list_installed" generate same output?

[Harald Schiöberg]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   um ... this might be a hideously uninformed question, but i was
> under the impression that i should expect different output from these
> two commands:
> 
>   # ipkg list
>   # ipkg list_installed

did you
	# ipkg update

to get the list of packets from the server ?

	pagefault
> 
> but on my freshly-flashed ASUS, the output from both is identical: