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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.14 Severity: important When trying to list all obsolete init.d scripts that are conffiles, I ran into a problem with the output from dpkg-query. The reason is that there is no newline between the list of files between different packages. Here is an example to demonstrate the problem: minerva:/# dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' | grep /etc/init.d/init.d |grep obsolete|head -2 /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq 5cf8c5572d789beaf18d79fc52f95665 obsolete /etc/fonts/conf.d/unhinted.conf 4070b0651a9e3e0d26a77d6cc6f7e575 obsolete /etc/init.d/fuse 0a6a4540ffd72926dbb9f12d9f1ad31d minerva:/# Notice how there is no newline between 'obsolete' and '/etc/init.d/fuse'. Please change the output from dpkg-query to add a newline between entries for different packages. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen
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--- Begin Message ---On Tue, 01 Jan 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Here is an example to demonstrate the problem: > > minerva:/# dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' | grep /etc/init.d/init.d |grep > obsolete|head -2 > /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq 5cf8c5572d789beaf18d79fc52f95665 obsolete > /etc/fonts/conf.d/unhinted.conf 4070b0651a9e3e0d26a77d6cc6f7e575 obsolete > /etc/init.d/fuse 0a6a4540ffd72926dbb9f12d9f1ad31d > minerva:/# > > Notice how there is no newline between 'obsolete' and > '/etc/init.d/fuse'. > > Please change the output from dpkg-query to add a newline between > entries for different packages. Please use dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' then. I don't think that always adding a newline is a good idea as it's not backwards compatible. And fields never end with an newline character (even multi-line fields). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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