-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : >>> If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those >>> packages are poking at the status file, please use something like: >>> >>> $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' docbook-xml >>> >>> which is also cleaner. If there happens to be any reentrancy problem >>> in dpkg-query, that will be considered a bug and fixed, so this should >>> be considered the standard api for maintainer scripts. >> Could you please fix the wiki page with proper functions you recommend? > > Sure, done.
FWIW the new documentation on the wiki [1] regarding dpkg-query was not entirely correct. It missed to strip of the "obsolete" keyword. I updated the wiki accordingly. Cheers, Michael [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling - -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGerKrh7PER70FhVQRAvrFAJ9z6An10Xn3niFddCPwHXEknGelagCeNEp5 jVYWw2eBQjgc3W1h07dx3J8= =1gj8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]