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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.20
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The --print-avail options lists things nice ... but it is useless
for postprocessing, because the package names are turncated. I propose
a) either widen the package listing column
b) provide new option --full which would print the package name
AND the description in full length. Now the package descriptions
are also truncated.
An example:
If I wanted to remove libipc-signal-??? I couldn't consult this
listing. And I'm too cautious to use something like libipc-signal*
for remove regexp.
Jari
ii libipc-signal-p 1.00-4 utility functions dealing with signals
ii libisc4 9.2.2-2 ISC Shared Library used by BIND
ii libjcode-perl 2.13-2 Perl library for Japanese character code
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
runtime libr
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-12 path search library for teTeX (runtime
ii libkrb-1-kerber 1.2.2-3 Kerberos Libraries for Kerberos4 From
ii libkrb5-17-heim 0.5.2-5 Libraries for Heimdal Kerberos
ii libkrb53 1.3.3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii liblcms1 1.12-2 Color management library
ii libldap2 2.1.17-3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii liblinc1 1.0.3-4 library to simplify creating networked
ii liblocale-gette 1.01-17 Using libc functions for
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.20 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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* Jari Aalto
| The --print-avail options lists things nice ... but it is useless
| for postprocessing, because the package names are turncated. I propose
Uhm, are you confusing dpkg -l and dpkg --print-available?
: tfheen@yiwaz ~ > dpkg --print-avail libipc-signal-perl
Package: libipc-signal-perl
Priority: optional
[snip]
: tfheen@yiwaz ~ > dpkg -l \*libipc-signal\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un libipc-signal- <none> (no description available)
| a) either widen the package listing column
if you want to do that set COLUMNS:
: tfheen@yiwaz ~ > COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l \*libipc-signal\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================================================================-=====================================================================-==========================================================================================================================================================
un libipc-signal-perl <none> (no description available)
: tfheen@yiwaz ~ >
| b) provide new option --full which would print the package name
| AND the description in full length. Now the package descriptions
| are also truncated.
use dpkg-query:
: tfheen@yiwaz ~ > dpkg-query --showformat='${Package}\n' -W libipc\*
libipc-run-perl
libipc-shareable-perl
libipc-sharedcache-perl
libipc-sharelite-perl
libipc-signal-perl
: tfheen@yiwaz ~ >
This looks like user error, so I'm closing this bug; feel free to
reopen it if you think I'm wrong.
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