Hi! On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:53:53 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello dpkg folks, where can I find actual documentation for correct > meanings of words in 'Status: ...' lines in /var/lib/dpkg/status, and > the info which triads are possible and which are not?
Part of this is documented in the dpkg man page (PACKAGE STATES, PACKAGE SELECTION STATES and PACKAGE FLAGS), but then I don't think we have user documentation for the field itself, as theoretically no one, execept for libdpkg based apps, should be reading that file directly, I've to send a mail with future work and a roadmap for 1.15.x, which includes getting apt and aptitude to switch to use a libdpkg for parsing the db. But, anyway for now, the function parsing the Status field is in lib/fields.c (f_status), and the currently accepted values can be found in lib/parsehelp.c (statusinfos, eflaginfos, wantinfos), take into account some are only possible while reading and are going to get fixed up internally at that point. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
