On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:00:59PM -0700, NewDeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > See, this is a mystery to me, because I am running the commands and viewing > the control file of one single package. Why is the version showing up > separately ?
You can't use apt-cache to display the control file of a .deb directly; it shows the control file of an *arbitrary* version in the apt cache. > Ok, so what I am actually after is this - I am going to get an input of > several .deb files (of proprietary software within my company). I have to > read the .deb files to extract the payload and bundle them together to form > a "big package" (in a non debian format). So far so good. However, I must > also read the dependencies (again, of proprietary software within my > company) listed in each .deb so as to include them in this "big package". > This is the part (reading and extracting the exhaustive list of > dependencies) I am not sure how to do and was hoping I can use preexisting > debian tools to do this for me. Which one is best or do I have to write this > from scratch ? If latter, is there any source I can refer ? Personally, I think you'd probably be better off using python-apt (if you speak python, anyway). But otherwise the dpkg output is canonical -- it shows you exactly what's in the .deb file. apt shows you what's inside *some* .deb file, but you might have to do some work to make sure it's the one you want. > >> tomcat5-5.5.26-1jpp.2.fc7 Hrm, I assumed that the -5.5.whatever was a version number, but apt-cache doesn't show me a version number after the package name. Did you actually type in "apt-cache depends tomcat5-5.5.26-1jpp.2.fc7"? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
