Re: "dpkg --status" not sufficient.
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 05:04:12PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
>
> > Use somthing like dpkg-perl.
>
> Will dpkg-perl allow me to query the status of the *current* system?
> It seems to always want a "packages" file, but I must admit, given
> *no* documentation, I haven't figured it all out yet.
>
> Also, even if I can just hand it the "status" file, isn't that just as
> "bad" as parsing the file by hand (which Ian keeps telling us not to
> do), or does dpkg-perl know how to safely synchronize with dpkg?
AFAIK, dpkg-perl does the Right Thing, that is, using libdpkg to parse
dpkg databases.
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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