Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > We had to fix some older alternatives breakage from a package we took > over, and used update-alternatives --display to see whether we needed to > do anything. Unfortunately, > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin > xdvi.bin - Status ist auto. > Link verweist zur Zeit auf /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin > /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin - Priorität 30 > Gegenwärtig »beste« Version ist /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin. > # > > which is impossible to parse (at least not if we think about all the > other languages). > > This showed up in #438551, and we fixed it by prepending LC_ALL=C to our > call to u-a, but it would be nice if there was an interface to query > update-alternative's status with respect to a particular alternative. > Something which doesn't change with localization, and hardly with time > (and if it does, gets an entry in NEWS.Debian).
What about "readlink /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin" ? Or did you specifically need the info about the status (auto or not)? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
