Re: How to obtain current package version number?
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:58:32PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:40:52 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> >No. Do not skip the proper interface layers. Use dpkg to get that
> >information.
>
> Calling dpkg is actually the recommended way to do this? Can I call
> dpkg --list from a postinst script without having it explode?
No, it is not. You just need to use the $1 argument to postinst, as
Jerome told you.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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