On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:02:52PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 15:33:47 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 08:55:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > > While it would take a bit of restructuring / refactoring, I think it
> > > would be possible to use a single dpkg-query for everything and still be
> > > able to process the data in a "streaming" fashion.
> > >
> > > As an example, using the following:
> > >
> > > dpkg-query --show \
> > > --showformat='${status} ${package}\n${db-fsys:Files}\n\n'
>
> > I am trying to implement this to see how well this perform.
> > Unfortunately it seems it does not provide a stable interface across
> > release,
> > but maybe I am doing something wrong.
> >
> > dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status}
> > ${package}\n${db-fsys:Files}\n\n'|head -n1
> >
> > On buster:
> > deinstall ok config-files 0ad
> >
> > On sid:
> > (Lecture de la base de données... 134812 fichiers et répertoires déjà
> > installés.)
>
> For others following along at home (and myself), this was filed as #977240,
> and fixed in dpkg 1.20.6. (Was asked about a missing reply here, which I
> though I was owing after fixing it, then found about the bug. :)
Sorry about not following here but then the freeze was coming and I
stopped working on this. Thanks for bringing this up now that the
release is close.
So the main point is: is it a stable interface for which compatibility
will be provided in the future ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
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