Re: [PATCH] Change format of packages.txt/binary.packages to be machine readable
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
> Unfortunately, the output
> from "dpkg -l" isn't the easiest to machine parse
why? because it's cropping the package names?
if that's the reason, i would rather go with something ugly as this
(which certainly can be improved):
dpkg-query -W -f='${Status} ${Package}\t${Version}\t${Description}\n' |
grep -v "^ " | sed -e 's|install ok installed|ii|g'
> which is why I've
> created a patch to have the output of "dpkg-query -W" which format, by
> default, is "${Package}\t${Version}\n".
the output from dpkg -l is a pseudo standard, that's why any replacement
should imho, in the default case, not provide less information than that.
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