Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:42:23AM -0300, Leo Costela Antunes wrote:
> 'dpkg -l <package-name>' has the official answer. Of course the
> package _might_ have been removed manually, but in that case the user
> has already messed up with all infrastructure we care to provide =] I
> belive this method should be enough.
This is vague memory, but there was a conversation on IRC a few weeks
back in which it was observed that using 'dpkg -l' from a postinst (i.e.
from within dpkg) was potentially risky. I'd stick to looking for files
myself.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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