Hi, On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained > in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields > explicitly (using --show + --showformat) or (2) list all package names > (using --status)? > > I co-maintain some utilities that parse /var/lib/dpkg/status and I'd be > glad to migrate them to dpkg-query, but both solutions above have > drawbacks. (1) is not future proof and will miss the addition of new > fields unless the utility is updated; (2) has a race condition in asking > the currently installed packages and providing them to --status (beside > being a horrible hack in requiring to list all package names as > arguments). Am I missing something? > > Having the ability to pass a package (wildcard) pattern to --show would > be enough to solve this problem.
If you don't pass any argument to --show you have all the installed packages. And wildcards are already supported in --show (but not in --status). We can add support for wildcards in --status, in fact it will be easily doable. Do you want to file a wishlist bug for this ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303172306.ga13...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com