Re: dpkg options
>
> The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is
> there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might
> be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help
> pages. For example, is there an option to get the long description of an
> installed package (as opposed to the output of -l)? Is there a way to list
> the packages that depend on a certain installed package, and a way to list
> the packages that a certain installed package depends on? I suspect that
> these options may just be undocumented. If they don't exist, they probably
> should; all this info is available in /var/lib/dpkg/status (and besides, I
> think you can do these things with rpm, and I wouldn't want that tool to
> out-do dpkg in any way ;-).
>
Try checking out dpkg-deb --help. Dpkg passes some options on to
dpkg-deb and handles some itself, but dpkg-deb also has some options that
can't (I don't think) be accessed through dpkg. For example:
dpkg-deb --info
will give you quite a bit of information about a package, includeing
depends and a long description, although dpkg -s gives you the same.
Check it out, maybe some of the things you want are there.
>
> Phil Garcia > pgarcia@execpc.com
>
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