Looking for sponsor - aseqview

Hello, I've packaged aseqview. It's a small graphical (gtk) ALSA sequencer client that shows midi events in realtime. See http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/alsa.html for details. It's a rather trivial package so it there shouldn't be much effort needed to check, build and upload the package.

Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? I need to know it in newsx's wrapper skript to set the correct options. Until now I've used if [ -e /usr/share/doc/inn/copyright ] ... which works well, but breaks policy 13.3. I

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? What dpkg does is parsing /var/lib/dpkg/status. I recommend using dpkg - its error prone to rely on an implicit

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? I need to know it in newsx's wrapper skript to set the correct options. Until now I've used if [ -e

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

--V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:28:08AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Another option might be grep-status from grep-dctrl: However beside the fact that grep-dctrl may not be installed In which case the maintainer may use a Depends: if they like... I am not sure it is faster then dpkg. It was

Looking for sponsor - aseqview

Hello, I've packaged aseqview. It's a small graphical (gtk) ALSA sequencer client that shows midi events in realtime. See http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/alsa.html for details. It's a rather trivial package so it there shouldn't be much effort needed to check, build and upload the package.

Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? I need to know it in newsx's wrapper skript to set the correct options. Until now I've used if [ -e /usr/share/doc/inn/copyright ] ... which works well, but breaks policy 13.3. I

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? What dpkg does is parsing /var/lib/dpkg/status. I recommend using dpkg - its error prone to rely on an implicit

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? I need to know it in newsx's wrapper skript to set the correct options. Until now I've used if [ -e

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

--V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, inn2 or

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:28:08AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Another option might be grep-status from grep-dctrl: However beside the fact that grep-dctrl may not be installed In which case the maintainer may use a Depends: if they like... I am not sure it is faster then dpkg. It was visibly