On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 05:18 -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > | b) provide new option --full which would print the package name > | AND the description in full length. Now the package descriptions > | are also truncated. > > use dpkg-query: > > : tfheen@yiwaz ~ > dpkg-query --showformat='${Package}\n' -W libipc\* > libipc-run-perl > libipc-shareable-perl > libipc-sharedcache-perl > libipc-sharelite-perl > libipc-signal-perl > : tfheen@yiwaz ~ > > > This looks like user error, so I'm closing this bug; feel free to > reopen it if you think I'm wrong. > Yah, there's a few dups of that in the bug list too ... I suspect the right thing to do is document that the dpkg options are intended for reading on terminals and truncate their output and to use dpkg-query instead for scripts. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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