On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I get errors from cron because of popcon: > > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > > > popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing > > > > > > That file doesn't exist, it's really > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.list > > > due to the multiarch-enabled dpkg that I'm running. > > > > > > You should not access those files, the proper interface is dpkg-query -L > > > <pkg>. > > > > Hello Raphaƫl, > > > > This is not possible: forking dpkg for all installed packages would be way > > to slow and > > resource intensive. We need a better option. > > There's no better alternative. You can use dpkg-query --control-path to > get the path of other non-internal control files there: > $ dpkg-query --control-path liblouis2 > /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.md5sums > /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.postrm > /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.shlibs > /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.postinst > > We deliberately skip .list as we don't guarantee that we're always going > to use .list and there's no guaranty that the format of the file won't be > extended to store more information. You should not read those files > directly.
Hello Raphael, I have a hard time identifying what you mean by 'we' and 'you' in the above sentences. I do not read these file. This is what the script popularity-contest do and have done since well before I was the maintainer of popcon or you the maintainer of dpkg. There is a single project, Debian, and Debian developers need to figure out a way to get popularity-contest and dpkg to work together nicely, and set up a transition period to allow partial upgrades. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110412123245.GL6352@yellowpig