Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] missing information in xst-0.5.1

[Richard Bos <allabos freeler nl>]

On Tuesday 29 May 2001 14:22, you wrote:
> How would that work for Slackware for example? And other systems without
> packages?

Report an empty list or whatever reserved value will be assigned for such 
system/system.

> But doing it for rpm is very easy cause rpm holds it's package listing
> in berkely db and I'm 100% sure there is perl module for that.

Well if the output of the command "rpm -qa" (e.g) is put in the xst xml 
format it's all.  No problem with version checking (rpm 3 or 4) and such.  I 
don't know the commands for a deb package, but I assume there will be a 
similar one.  I've used the package query command on sun, but I don't 
remember it anymore.  Well it would be up to the backend, to determine the 
system it's running on and which package query command to execute.

-- 
Richard Bos
For those who have no (/)home the journey is endless

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