• Fwd: [PATCH] dpkg-query: --listfiles without package lists all files

    From Alexandre Detiste@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 11 19:00:01 2022
    Hi,

    I'm new here and catching up with the email archive.

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2022/10/msg00016.html
    Linking against static libdpkg >= 1.21.10
    ACK, thank you very much

    Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
    I'm trying to build something similar to the cruft(-ng)
    package to find non package files. Would that be a feature for dpkg?
    Cheers Jochen

    I realized today cruft(-ng) could be the solution for some space constraints
    we are facing right now at work.

    Not the actual cruft/cruft-ng CLI, I mean, but something else built
    on the same engine/library with result data processed differently.

    We basically want to assign each file of our proprietary
    /DATA & /LOG partitions to a package like "dpkg -S" would do
    and basically have the usage piechart to see where to act
    (the whole SSD is 16Gb :-| )

    I will quickly whip a working dh_cruft, that ships "debian/cruft" to /usr/lib/cruft/filters-unex/[binary package] API directory and rebuild
    our packages;
    and some binary that call the right functions to get this result
    but the end goal is that the most of it could be upstreamable and reusable.

    So if you already have some code or description of what you
    want to do it's welcome.

    Greetings,

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