Re: How to obtain current package version number?
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> how can a package learn about its current version number?
>
> Parsing /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.gz is out of the question
> since /usr/share/doc need not be present, and calling dpkg --list
> $PACKAGE and parsing its output looks like bad overkill.
>
> Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can
> write the version number to a file?
Why is it that you need to know this in a maintainer script? You know the
version of the package at build time.
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- mdz
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