Re: Bug#189566: amavisd-new: bad interaction with package amavis-ng

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:00:51AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> In the last case, there should be a way to do this _easily_. Currently
> the only way to do this is parsing dpkg --list output, which is mucho
> ugly.

I'd actually prefer the file check, and not involve the packaging system
in the day-to-day running of the system.

(Example: if I'm installing and configuring a firewall, I'd like to be
able to delete the dpkg files from the final image before flashing it.)

Richard Braakman