On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > how can a package learn about its current version number? > > Parsing /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.gz is out of the question > since /usr/share/doc need not be present, and calling dpkg --list > $PACKAGE and parsing its output looks like bad overkill. > > Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can > write the version number to a file?
Why is it that you need to know this in a maintainer script? You know the version of the package at build time. -- - mdz
