Bug#174869: marked as done (dpkg -l doesn't show full package names)
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Subject: dpkg -l doesn't show full package names
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
# dpkg -l 'kernel-pcmcia*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un kernel-pcmcia- <none> (no description available)
un kernel-pcmcia- <none> (no description available)
un kernel-pcmcia- <none> (no description available)
un kernel-pcmcia- <none> (no description available)
un kernel-pcmcia- <none> (no description available)
un kernel-pcmcia- <none> (no description available)
ii kernel-pcmcia- 2.4.19-4 Mainstream PCMCIA modules 2.4.19 on PPro/Cel
Informative, no? There doesn't seem to be any way to stop dpkg -l
truncating the package names. Particularly annoying when I'm using
dpkg -l for its globbing capability, where the package name (usually
the far end of the package name) is the part of the output that I'm most
interested in.
I've found a partial workaround. By lying about the terminal width
(through stty), I can get dpkg to use a wider field for the package name.
But it still truncates to whatever field width it decides on, and if I
give a really enormous terminal width (to make the field `big enough')
then each line of output is really enormous. This also only works when
output is directly to a tty: when outputting to a pipe (e.g., a pipe to
less) it reverts to 80 column output, with the results shown above.
In my opinion, the package name is such a fundamentally important part
of dpkg -l output that it should never be truncated at all. Version
numbers and descriptions can be relegated to a second line if necessary.
But I don't particularly want to argue the case to change the default
behaviour, so if you're particularly fond of the current behaviour then
I'll be happy with merely an option for the non-truncating behaviour
(perhaps -w, a la ps).
-zefram
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 04:48:48 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>, 174869-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#174869: dpkg -l doesn't show full package names
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Previously Zefram wrote:
> Informative, no? There doesn't seem to be any way to stop dpkg -l
> truncating the package names. Particularly annoying when I'm using
> dpkg -l for its globbing capability, where the package name (usually
> the far end of the package name) is the part of the output that I'm most
> interested in.
Use dpkg-query with the -w option, or set the COLUMNS environment to
make dpkg -l use a wider line.
Wichert.
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