Below is a short apt run. There are 2 types of status info being displayed(currently on stderr). I display the actual status field, and also track running maintainer scripts. It should be pretty self explanatory to figure out.
My question to the apt developers, is this enough info for apt to make better descisions? The following VERY short patch does the status: lines. The maintainer script patch is a little more complicated, and may not even be needed, so isn't included here. == Index: lib/dbmodify.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/dpkg/dpkg/lib/dbmodify.c,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 dbmodify.c --- lib/dbmodify.c 1999/10/30 01:44:55 1.4 +++ lib/dbmodify.c 2001/01/04 08:59:49 @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ onerr_abort++; +fprintf(stderr, "status: %s: %s\n", pkg->name, statusinfos[pkg->status]); varbufreset(&uvb); varbufrecord(&uvb, pkg, &pkg->installed); if (fwrite(uvb.buf, 1, uvb.used, importanttmp) != uvb.used) == yakko:/mount/md0/home/adam# apt-get remove libqt2.2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kaiman kdelibs3 libqt2.2 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 24.6MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] status: kaiman: installed (Reading database ... 37040 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kaiman ... status: kaiman: half-configured run: kaiman: prerm remove return: kaiman: prerm: 0 status: kaiman: half-installed run: kaiman: postrm remove return: kaiman: postrm: 0 status: kaiman: config-files status: kaiman: config-files status: kdelibs3: installed Removing kdelibs3 ... status: kdelibs3: half-configured run: kdelibs3: prerm remove return: kdelibs3: prerm: 0 status: kdelibs3: half-installed dpkg - warning: while removing kdelibs3, directory `/etc/kde2/ui' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing kdelibs3, directory `/etc/kde2/colors' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing kdelibs3, directory `/etc/kde2' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing kdelibs3, directory `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing kdelibs3, directory `/usr/share/doc/kde' not empty so not removed. run: kdelibs3: postrm remove return: kdelibs3: postrm: 0 status: kdelibs3: config-files status: kdelibs3: config-files status: libqt2.2: installed Removing libqt2.2 ... status: libqt2.2: half-configured run: libqt2.2: prerm remove return: libqt2.2: prerm: 0 status: libqt2.2: half-installed run: libqt2.2: postrm remove return: libqt2.2: postrm: 0 status: libqt2.2: config-files status: libqt2.2: config-files yakko:/mount/md0/home/adam# apt-get install kaiman Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdelibs3 libqt2.2 The following NEW packages will be installed: kaiman kdelibs3 libqt2.2 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/7308kB of archives. After unpacking 24.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously deselected package libqt2.2. (Reading database ... 34903 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libqt2.2 (from .../libqt2.2_2%3a2.2.3-4_i386.deb) ... status: libqt2.2: half-installed run: libqt2.2: preinst install 2:2.2.3-4 return: libqt2.2: preinst: 0 status: libqt2.2: unpacked status: libqt2.2: unpacked Selecting previously deselected package kdelibs3. Unpacking kdelibs3 (from .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.1-20010101-1_i386.deb) ... status: kdelibs3: half-installed run: kdelibs3: preinst install 4:2.1-20010101-1 return: kdelibs3: preinst: 0 status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked Selecting previously deselected package kaiman. Unpacking kaiman (from .../kaiman_4%3a2.1-20010101-1_i386.deb) ... status: kaiman: half-installed status: kaiman: unpacked status: kaiman: unpacked Setting up libqt2.2 (2.2.3-4) ... status: libqt2.2: unpacked status: libqt2.2: half-configured run: libqt2.2: postinst configure 2:2.2.3-4 return: libqt2.2: postinst: 0 status: libqt2.2: installed Setting up kdelibs3 (2.1-20010101-1) ... status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: unpacked status: kdelibs3: half-configured run: kdelibs3: postinst configure 4:2.1-20010101-1 return: kdelibs3: postinst: 0 status: kdelibs3: installed Setting up kaiman (2.1-20010101-1) ... status: kaiman: unpacked status: kaiman: half-configured run: kaiman: postinst configure 4:2.1-20010101-1 return: kaiman: postinst: 0 status: kaiman: installed ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -----END PGP INFO-----
