Hey Geoffroy:

What version of dpkg does Sarge come with, is it 1.10.28?

$ dpkg --version
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.10.28
(i386).

Thanks,

Bernard 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] [Oscar-checkins] r5114 - trunk
> 
> Quoting Erich Focht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > On Monday 10 July 2006 17:31, Geoffroy VALLEE wrote:
> > > Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 05:58, Erich Focht a crit:
> > > > Didn't see that. And the check was for the return code, 
> not the output.
> > > > The command was:
> > > > "dpkg --status $pkgname >/dev/null 2>&1"
> > > > which means we discard all the output!
> > >
> > > 2>&1 redirects stderr right? so you check errors and dpkg 
> does not return
> > > errors on Sarge if the packages is not installed.
> >
> > It means: redirect stdout to /dev/null and redirect stderr 
> to th esame place
> > as stdout. So only return codes are checked. Not stdout or stderr.
> >
> > Looks like I need to check this myself on sarge, I just 
> can't believe this is
> > broken. Indeed, I tested on ubuntu 5.10.
> 
> So it does not work on Sarge, you can test it. Ubuntu 5.10 
> and Sarge are deeply
> different we cannot assume that something working on Ubuntu 
> has to work on
> Sarge.
> I never planed to support Ubuntu and i still do not plan to 
> support it.
> 
> BTW, if i have to justify each lines of code, i stop my developments.
> I work on OOD on my free time, i do not want to spend  then 
> hours in email to
> justify everything.
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Erich
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 


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