Your message dated Tue, 3 Apr 2012 06:33:31 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#641602: -L and -c/--content should work on multiple
.deb files
has caused the Debian Bug report #641602,
regarding dpkg-deb: -c/--contents does not accept multiple .deb files
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.0.3
Severity: wishlist
$ dpkg -c ../build-area/*.deb
dpkg-deb: error: --contents takes exactly one argument
I just do not see why. Would you accept a patch for that?
Steffen
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On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 08:04:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> retitle 641602 dpkg-deb: -c/--contents does not accept multiple .deb files
> tag 641602 wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 17:35:44 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.16.0.3
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > $ dpkg -c ../build-area/*.deb
> > dpkg-deb: error: --contents takes exactly one argument
> >
> > I just do not see why. Would you accept a patch for that?
>
> For the same reason tar or zip only accept one archive for all
> operations. In any case I don't see how something like:
>
> $ ls *.deb | xargs -n1 dpkg-deb -c
>
> or
>
> $ for f in *.deb; do dpkg-deb -c $f; done
>
> is that much complicated as to require “bloating” dpkg-deb for it, and
> as such I'm marking this as wontfix for now, will probably close in a
> bit.
Closing this now.
thanks,
guillem
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