On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:34:53AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: > I want to dump a complete list of installed packages to a file as part > of my backup procedure. man dpkg-query suggests using > --showformat=format, in particular: "Package information can be > included by inserting variable references to package fields using the > ${var[;width]} syntax." But it doesn't say what the variable > names are. Suggestions?
It can be anything from the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, case insensitive. -- George Cristian Birzan gcbirzan (at) wolfheart (dot) ro Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. -- Dean McLaughlin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]