On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:53:06 +0100 Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> wrote:
> Celejar <[email protected]> (15/01/2009): > > Is there any automatic way to check whether a given system has any of > > the binary packages built from a given source package installed? > > (without any deb-src) It looks like the following does what you want: > | grep-status -sPackage -F Package $source_package > > Works for me with blender, xulrunner, graphviz as source package names. Thanks, but I don't think this is correct. On my system: $ grep-status -sPackage -F Package xulrunner Package: xulrunner-1.9 Package: xulrunner-gnome-support Package: xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support Package: liferea-xulrunner These are just the packages whose names contain the string xulrunner, regardless if they're installed (e.g., liferea-xulrunner isn't), and it omits many of the packages that are built from the xulrunner source package, even installed ones, whose names don't contain the string (e.g., I tried installing spidermonkey-bin, and it didn't show up). According to the man page, your command merely prints the package fields of those packages whose package fields contains the string $source_package, as above. Have I missed something? > Mraw, > KiBi. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
