Re: Bug#34854: bug #34854
Previously H. S. Teoh wrote:
> The latest version of dpkg (1.6.14) seems to now honor the screen width
> and adjust its output accordingly. At least, this works under a resized
> xterm. So perhaps this bug should be closed?
Probably should. I haven't had the time to go over all the bugreports
again.
> OTOH, perhaps what we *really* need is an option to dpkg to specify the
> desired screen width so that you can re-format dpkg output to pipe to,
> e.g., "xmessage -file -", or perhaps an option to disable screen width
> truncating.
Try setting the COLUMNS environment variable. (if that doesn't work
you'll have to wait for the next upload, it definitely works in the CVS
version).
Wichert.
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