On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg. > > If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a > > plugin, dpkg-query will continue to work but your access to the status > > file will not. (This is unlikely to happen any time soon, but you get the > > idea) > > Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained > in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields > explicitly (using --show + --showformat)
For each package --status will do the trick, for all packages, yeah it does not support patterns. I guess adding that would be fine. So one could do something like: «dpkg-query -s '*'». > or (2) list all package names (using --status)? Currently something like «dpkg-query -l|tr -s ' ' '\t'|cut -f2» could do the trick, altough I could agree it sucks a bit. If --status would accept patterns that would be nicer. > Having the ability to pass a package (wildcard) pattern to --show would > be enough to solve this problem. > Do you want a bug report about this? Yes, please. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303172001.ga2...@gaara.hadrons.org
