Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:36:30PM +0100, Markus Braun wrote: >> Hi, >> >> for a script I'm writing I need to get information for several packages. >> Because "dpkg -s ..." is slow I thought about using grep/awk on >> /var/lib/dpkg/status directly to get the information. I'm not sure if this >> is a valid possibility or if direct access to /var/lib/dpkg/status should be >> avoided. >> >> Can someone comment on this please? > > Have you looked at grep-status (package grep-dctrl) ? Perhaps this > is what you want.
If you're going to depend on a separate package (grep-dctrl) anyway, you can also consider using dlocate (instead or optionally). Has all the reporting options of dpkg, but uses a database and is much smaller. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
