Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 }}')
Thanks, that looks very good. And it answers the question (or at least gives a good indication) whether calling dpkg -s during a run of "dpkg --install <long_list_of_files>" gives a sensible output; otherwise they'd probably know. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer