On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 15:33:47 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 08:55:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > > While it would take a bit of restructuring / refactoring, I think it > > would be possible to use a single dpkg-query for everything and still be > > able to process the data in a "streaming" fashion. > > > > As an example, using the following: > > > > dpkg-query --show \ > > --showformat='${status} ${package}\n${db-fsys:Files}\n\n'
> I am trying to implement this to see how well this perform. > Unfortunately it seems it does not provide a stable interface across release, > but maybe I am doing something wrong. > > dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} > ${package}\n${db-fsys:Files}\n\n'|head -n1 > > On buster: > deinstall ok config-files 0ad > > On sid: > (Lecture de la base de données... 134812 fichiers et répertoires déjà > installés.) For others following along at home (and myself), this was filed as #977240, and fixed in dpkg 1.20.6. (Was asked about a missing reply here, which I though I was owing after fixing it, then found about the bug. :) Thanks, Guillem