Re: "dpkg --status" not sufficient.
Rob Browning wrote:
> I've found that you can in fact call "dpkg --status" from within a
> dpkg maintainer script (postinst, prerm, etc.), but I was wondering if
> there was a more efficient way to get at its information. Rather than
> do 20 invocations to get information about 20 packages, I'd rather
> just do one invocation that spits back 20 status entries.
Use somthing like dpkg-perl.
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