On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:01:06PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.53 > Severity: important > User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: multiarch > > I just received the following mail from anacron: > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > Package `libc6-i686' is not installed. > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. > Package `mksh' is not installed. > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. > > Those are multiarch packages I have installed: > > $ dpkg -l | grep libc6-i686 > ii libc6-i686:i386 2.13-26 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 > optimized] > > Interestingly mksh:i386 is reduced to mksh in `dpkg -l': > > ii mksh 40.4-2 MirBSD Korn Shell > > However `dpkg -l mksh' gives this: > > un mksh <none> (no description available)
Hello Philipp, popcon actually uses: dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n' and dpkg -L $pkg What does that give on your system? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org