Re: dpkg

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:02:48PM +0200, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote:
> Yes, good script and speed but some corrections are needed:
> 
> cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep -E "^Depends: .*\<${1}\>[^-]" -B 9 | 
> grep -E "^Package: "
> 
> 
> \<${1}\> to take package name as a word
> [^-] because '-' is a separator for grep and can be included in package 
> name
> -B 9 because -B 7 is to small. Some packages have the 'Recommends' section.

Plain grep is always going to be a kludge for this. grep-dctrl actually
understands the format so can be much more accurate more easily.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]