On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Graham Williams wrote:
I'm looking to close out some long outstanding wajig "bugs."
I'm thinking to close this one - perhaps its a wishlist? Or
would you have some suggested code to update?
As far as I can see it's a bug: wajig detail's documentation in wajig
listcommands says:
detail Provide a detailed description of package (describe -vv)
and as this bug says, it doesn't work for installed packages that aren't
downloadable.
As the bug report says, wajig detail uses apt-cache dumpavail:
Performing: apt-cache dumpavail > /home/rrt/.wajig/mord/tmpm6CLul
No packages found from those known to be available or installed
I've suggested that if the call to apt-cache dumpavail fails, you use dpkg
-S instead. What do you want me to do, write the code for you? Oh wait, this
is free software...hang on...OK, the code already says:
# The package descriptions can either be in dpkg --status or in
# apt-cache dumpavail. They are not in the latter if they are no longer
# available, so I really need to be checking both!
but it doesn't seem to practise what it preaches. I attach a minimal patch
against commands.py from wajig 2.0.40 to call dpkg --status, and proceed to
apt-cache only if that fails.
--
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--- commands.py.bak 2008-12-01 10:21:56.000000000 +0000
+++ commands.py 2009-04-07 16:24:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@
perform.execute("dpkg-deb --info %s" % f)
print "="*72
sys.stdout.flush()
+ l = package_names[:]
+ for p in l:
+ if perform.execute("dpkg --status %s" % p) == 0:
+ print "="*72
+ sys.stdout.flush()
+ package_names.remove(p)
if package_names:
packages = package_names
else:
