Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org
On 27 Jun 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> writes:
>
> Stephane> (if I take over the maintenance of a Debian box and I want
> Stephane> to get rid of all the non-free stuff, I cannot, except by
> Stephane> reading every licence).
>
> That is not true. You really need to learn scripting, if you
> think it is true, all one needs is a script that parses
> /var/lib/dpkg/status, and looks at the section and status
> fields. (which may well be what vrms does)
dpkg-awk 'section:.*non-free.*' -- package|sed -ne 's/\(..*\)/\1/p'
Adam
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