Bug#177487: marked as done (dpkg: -l can't deal with long package names intellegently )
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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
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Subject: dpkg: -l can't deal with long package names intellegently
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one must go thru many exercises with COLUMNS= to reveal the full
names, while at the same time there is lots of space left after the
version number. here we see 17 items that look the same
dpkg -l \*openoff*|sort|uniq -c
1 +++-=================-=================-==================================================
1 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
1 ii openoffice.org 1.0.1-6 high-quality office productivity suite
1 ii openoffice.org-bi 1.0.1-6 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
1 ii openoffice.org-de 1.0.1-6+2 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org package
1 ii openoffice.org-he 1.0.1-6 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
1 ii openoffice.org-l1 1.0.1-6 chinese_traditional language package for openoffic
1 in openoffice.org-l1 1.0.1-6 (no description available)
1 pn libming-fonts-ope <none> (no description available)
1 un openoffice <none> (no description available)
2 un openoffice.org-he <none> (no description available)
17 un openoffice.org-l1 <none> (no description available)
3 un openoffice.org-sp <none> (no description available)
1 un ttf-openoffice <none> (no description available)
1 | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
1 |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
1 ||/ Name Version Description
05:02 ~$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.9 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>, 177487-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#177487: dpkg: -l can't deal with long package names intellegently
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Previously Dan Jacobson wrote:
> one must go thru many exercises with COLUMNS= to reveal the full
> names, while at the same time there is lots of space left after the
> version number. here we see 17 items that look the same
Try using dpkg-query with the --showformat and --show options.
Wichert.
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