On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:53:00AM -0400, G. Kaplan wrote: > Can I determine the destination directory of a package from the Packages > file. My objective is to calculate the disk storage requirement for all > (or a preselected subset of) packages by destination directory. Where > can I find this information without actually installing the package.
By "Packages file" do you mean, e.g., "/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/Packages.dists_frozen_main"? If so, I don't believe the desired information is there. If you mean an individual package file, e.g., xyz-0.13.deb, then "dpkg -c xyz-0.13.deb" displays an "ls -l" of the archive therein. One doesn't have to install the package to see this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
