Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-06-21 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW the new documentation on the wiki [1] regarding dpkg-query was not > entirely > correct. It missed to strip of the "obsolete" keyword. I updated the wiki > accordingly. Ah, yes. Where is the meaning of that keyword documented? Regards, Frank --

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-06-21 Thread Michael Biebl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : >>> If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those >>> packages are poking at

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread sean finney
On Thursday 31 May 2007 19:03:41 Ian Jackson wrote: > (Note that I'm adamantly opposed to the IMO crazy plans to replace the > on-disk status database format. IMO the parsing needs to be sped up > and the Descriptions moved into a separate file. But this is a > discussion for a different list.)

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful"): > Please stop parsing dpkg status file from maintainer scripts. No > package should assume its location or format (except for now for > package managment frontends and the like, until there's a proper > library they can use).

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:22:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 07:53 +0300 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > > upload finally triggered it. > > Well, why didn't you send me a CC of this mail? I just stumble

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those > > packages are poking at the status file, please use something like: > > > > $ dpkg-query -W

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 07:53 +0300 schrieb Guillem Jover: > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > upload finally triggered it. Well, why didn't you send me a CC of this mail? I just stumbled over this by fluke. > Please stop parsing dpkg status file from ma

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > upload finally triggered it. > > Please stop parsing dpkg status file from maintainer scripts. No > package should assume its location or format (except for now f