On 20030306T080640+0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Because I don't find that approach very elegant, and it is also error > prone. Imagine a local user diverting the file that I use for package > version indication. The information which version is installed is > already there, in the dpkg database. I only need to be able to access > it.
You could also hardcode the version in the program itself, and do this hardcoding automatically at build time. See grep-dctrl for an example on how to do this (especially its configure.in). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Please send any work-related email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
