On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:00:51 +0200
Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I have a nice idea and need for it. ;-)
>
>
> Since I am Debian GNU/Linux Consultant and have MANY Debian
> instalations at customers I have written a script, which catch the
> names of installed packages using
>
> PKGLIST=`ssh -l ${SSHLOGIN} ${SSHHOST} "if
> [ -d /var/lib/dpkg/info ] ; then for PKG
> in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list ; do echo \"\$(basename
> \${PKG} .list)\" ; done ; else exit 127 ; fi"`
>
Erm, can you just
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package}\n'
?
That's when I use to see what packages are installed on a given system,
but perhaps I'm wrong and it pulls in non-purged packages too (I almost
always purge).
Regards,
Daniel
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