[H-GEN] .dep database.

[Anthony Towns]

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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Andrae Muys wrote:

> Is the debian .dep database ascii or binary?

[root at azure ~]# cd /var/lib/dpkg
[root at azure /var/lib/dpkg]# head status
Package: glut-dev
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: graphics

Package: gnushogi
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: games

[root at azure /var/lib/dpkg]# grep -i ^Depends: status | head
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), ncurses3.0, xlib6 (>= 3.2-0)
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), ncurses3.0
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Depends: netbase, libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Depends: emacs, tcsh
Depends: tetex-base, tetex-bin
Depends: perl, passwd (>= 961025)
[root at azure /var/lib/dpkg]# grep '^[^ ]*:' status | 
> awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
Conffiles
Config-Version
Conflicts
Depends
Description
Essential
Installed-Size
Maintainer
Package
Pre-Depends
Priority
Provides
Recommends
Replaces
Section
Source
Status
Suggests
Version
[root at azure /var/lib/dpkg]# _

So, yes, it is ascii.

Is that all you wanted to know?

Cheers
aj

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