Ticket #954 (new enhancement)
machtype -L should not use dpkg-query
| Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Current Semester |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
For the reasons noted in #778, machtype should not use dpkg-query. Now that #848 is in development, we can do this better. My plan (currently implemented in login-graphical) is to ship a "metapackage.installed" file for each package in /var/lib/debathena/metapackages. Then machtype can just look there to see what's installed. The downside is that if debathena-cluster is in a half-installed state or something, this new machtype will report the wrong answer, whereas the current one would report a lower metapackage.
If we decide not to implement this ticket, someone should delete trunk/debathena/meta/login-graphical/debian/debathena-login-graphical.installed and trunk/debathena/meta/login-graphical/debian/debathena-login-graphical.install
I wonder if the Right(tm) way to do this is to have machtype provide a trigger, and have our metapackages be consumers of the trigger. When a metapackage is installed, the trigger writes out a file and then machtype reads that file.