On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:34:53AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> I want to dump a complete list of installed packages to a file as part 
> of my backup procedure.  man dpkg-query suggests using 
> --showformat=format, in particular: "Package information can be 
> included by inserting variable references to package fields using the 
> ${var[;width]} syntax."  But it doesn't say what the variable
> names are.  Suggestions?

It can be anything from the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, case insensitive.

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