Re: APT capabilities?
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> these wishes still listed in the BTS, I suspect that I'm getting the apt-pkg
> documentation wrong. The fact that the referenced file appears not to exist
> is another clue :)
> What I'm specifically curious about is the 'xstatus' file mentioned in
> /usr/doc/apt/files.html/ch2.html#s2.2 . According to the documentation, it
> contains the following flags for each package:
> X-Auto
> X-TargetDist
> X-TargetVersion
xstatus is actually read in, however I think for X-* was dropped.
> It seems like this information is intended to support the following behaviors
> which I would like to see available as options in the various apt frontends:
It was
> Could someone please explain to me what's going on with this file and how I
> access it (or if I need to)? Also, if there's a more appropriate list for this
> question I suppose I could subscribe to it :)
It is read into the pkgCache structure, a more appropriate list for this
is deity@lists.debian.org
Jason
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