Re: interpreting Status field in dpkg status/available file
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:59AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > But if you only do it once per cron job, it doesn't really matter.
>
> true. but it's the principle of the thing :), and sometimes i run
> update-dlocatedb by hand and i'm just impatient.
OK. Fair enough.
> i thought grep-dctrl was perl but it's C, so i probably won't make a
> patch for it unless i get seriously bored. i'll come up with a patch for
> dpkg-perl (although i don't think it's being actively maintained and
> isn't terribly useful now that grep-dctrl is here).
I think dpkg-perl is to be deprecated.
Julian
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