On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 19:46, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Oliver Kurth <okurth@gmx.net> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to write a script that gives me a list of all modified > > conffiles. Not too hard, by parsing /var/lib/dpkg/status and comparing > > the md5sums. But it would be easier if I could get the contents of a > > particular field of installed packages, 'Conffiles' in my case, by > > calling some program. dpkg-deb -f can only be used on .deb files, but > > not on installed packages. > > > > Any ideas? > Ever tried debsums? Thanks. But debconf uses /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums. This is a list of md5sums of all files in the packages, not just conffiles, and not all packages have such a list. The last point makes it useless. The md5sums that are used to determine if a conffile has been modified and lets dpkg ask if it should overwrite or not are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/status. debsums does not read that file, AFAIK. Greetings, Oliver
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