On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > What Josselin is criticizing is the fact that python-central heavily > > relies on the P-V field, it looks it up in /var/lib/dpkg/status and also > > uses /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.list to find out files to byte-compile. > > This is usage of internal interfaces of dpkg and it's also normal that > > people are reserved on this. > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.list is not used.
Just a remark, extract from pycentral: > #lines = [s[:-1] for s in file('/var/lib/dpkg/info/%s.list' % > self.name).readlines()] > cmd = ['/usr/bin/dpkg-query', '-L', self.name] So it's _no more_ used (it's commented out) but it relies on dpkg-query -L instead. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]