On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:28 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a > package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or > Suggest) is configured?
Assuming your package does something reasonable with this knowledge ... > Testing for file contents can only tell whether > it is unpacked, but that might not be enough. I don't know about an "established" way, but libc6.postinst looks interesting: # Only get the ones that are installed, and configured check=$(dpkg -s $check 2> /dev/null | egrep '^Package:|^Status:' | awk '{if ($1 ~ /^Package:/) { package=$2 } else if ($0 ~ /^Status: .* installed$/) { print package }}') Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]