Re: [PATCH] dpkg-query: --listfiles without package lists all files

[Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>]

Hi Guillem,

* Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> [2022-08-22 00:55]:
> On Sun, 2022-08-21 at 20:44:32 +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> > diff --git a/man/dpkg-query.pod b/man/dpkg-query.pod
> > index ade71db25..53ab4e3b7 100644
> > --- a/man/dpkg-query.pod
> > +++ b/man/dpkg-query.pod
> > @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ When multiple I<package-name> entries are listed, the requested status
> >  entries are separated by an empty line, with the same order as specified
> >  on the argument list.
> >
> > -=item B<-L>, B<--listfiles> I<package-name>...
> > +=item B<-L>, B<--listfiles> [I<package-name>...]
> >
> >  List files installed to your system from I<package-name>. When multiple
> >  I<package-name>s are listed, the requested lists of files are separated
>
> Hmm, this does not seem to fit entirely the --listfiles action, and
> diverges from its interface, but in any case I think the following
> would be an existing and equivalent replacement:
>
>  $ dpkg-query -f '${db-fsys:Files}\n' -W

That's perfect, thanks!

Btw. is there a similar feature to list all control files of all 
packages, like dpkg-query -c dpkg?
Otherwise, would something like db-fsys:Control-Files be acceptable?

I'm trying to build something similar to the cruft(-ng) package to find 
non package files. Would that be a feature for dpkg?

Cheers Jochen

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