Re: Uploaded dpkg-awk 0.7 (source all) to master
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:45:19PM -0500, adam.heath@adam.hackers-net.com wrote:
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> Maintainer: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
> Description:
> dpkg-awk - Awk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} and Packages
IIRC, it was a Bad Thing to extract information from dpkg databases
directly. Its format will change RSN so its better not to rely on it.
If you need to extract that info, use libdpkg.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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