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Re: Problem with the "updmap scheme" when a font package is in an "inconsistent state"



Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Yet Another Option (in order to save time) is to parse
> /var/lib/dpkg/status with sed, considering this:
>
> ,----[ http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/06/msg00239.html ]
> | According to the dpkg maintainers, /var/lib/dpkg/status is public enough
> | to be used. tools like grep-dctrl use this file as well.
> `----

Which gives Yet Another Option: using grep-status:

% time grep-status -s Status -P -X lmodern
Status: install ok installed
grep-status -s Status -P -X lmodern  0.26s user 0.01s system 95% cpu 0.281 total

-- 
Florent



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