Hi, let me follow up on my word.
Here is example of shell script which checks dependency almost like the
perl one in the package. (Not much testing yet but seems to work OK here.)
If you include this, you can remove dependency to PERL.
Osamu
#!/bin/bash
DEBUG=0
# dependency can not have space
LIST="dpkg,pbuilder,bogus|ifupdown,aptitude,bogus2|bosudbogus,boguss"
decho() {
if [ $DEBUG -eq 1 ] ; then
echo "$1"
fi
}
dependency () {
l=""
# split with ,
IFS=","
for i in `echo "$1"`; do
INSTALLED=0
unset IFS
# split with |
IFS="|"
for j in `echo "$i"`; do
unset IFS
decho "checking status of \"$j\" package"
if dpkg -s $j 2>/dev/null | grep -q -e "Status: install ok installed" ; then
decho ". \"$j\" package is installed."
INSTALLED=1
else
decho "- \"$j\" package is NOT installed."
fi
done
if [ $INSTALLED -eq 0 ]; then
if [ -z "$l" ]; then
l=$i
else
l="$l,$i"
fi
fi
done
echo "$l"
}
dependency "$LIST"
