Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a >> pkg at: >> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev >> >> It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must >> have that information somewhere. > > dpkg-query can display the information in whatever form you want. For > example: > > dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Package} ${Version}\n' > > (package-version is rarely used in Debian because it's ambiguous; > is foo-9-1 version 9-1 or foo, or version 1.2 of foo-9?)
My only excuse is that I had not run into dpkg-query yet. Nice nice. and thanks again for pointing it out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehyi9gtb....@newsguy.com
