Re: Uploaded dpkg-awk 0.7 (source all) to master
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:45:19PM -0500, adam.heath@adam.hackers-net.com wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.
Or the perl dpkg routines.. etc.
An interesting project for someone would be to write a usefull shell
parsable command line information grabber for dpkg (possibly using APT's
library)
Jason
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