Re: [LONG MESSAGE] Re: `du' control files

1998-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Have you ever considered dpkg --contents | awk '{print $3 "\t" $6}' > which takes but seconds and can be thus done on the fly? You can even > exlude all the conffiles with a suitable grep -v step. Have you ever tried this on a large package? Like the 8 mb quake-

Re: [LONG MESSAGE] Re: `du' control files

1998-02-15 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: [snip] > Christian continued: > >Does someone know which program is using these files?? > > As far as I know, no programs are using these YET. If we decide to keep > them, though, they will be useful for a FUTURE package manager. But we don't kn

Re: [LONG MESSAGE] Re: `du' control files

1998-02-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Charles" == Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles> Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> With the new lintian check I discovered that some packages install >> a `du' control file (contains the output of the du command).

[LONG MESSAGE] Re: `du' control files

1998-02-15 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With the new lintian check I discovered that some packages install a `du' >control file (contains the output of the du command). Since I am the fool who introduced the `du' control file in the first place, maybe I should