Hi, Donovan Baarda wrote: > Using this the python package can "notify" all packages that depend on > it by calling dpkg-reconfigure on them;
That would work for me too, of course. >> egrep "^install ok installed:[^:]*:.*$PYTHONXY([ ,]|$)" | \ That regexp looks like it should look like this instead: >> egrep "^install ok installed:[^:]*:(|.*[ ,])$PYTHONXY([ ,]|$)" | \ so that it doesn't find packages which depend on packages which just happend to end with $PYTHONXY. (Or perhaps you should rewrite that shell function in Python. ;-) -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: Das Zitat wurde zufÃllig ausgewÃhlt. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Hallo VolksmusikgenieÃer!