On 06-Dec-2000 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> let's see ..... >> >> /var/lib/dpkg/status. Every package marked 'Status: install ok installed' >> is >> installed. > > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way to make dpkg read its > data from some file other than the system's /var/lib/dpkg/status > (assuming that's the file dpkg is using to get its data; I always > assumed so). >
nope, you get to do some manual work.
