UCFQ
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1)
Updated: 2006-04-16
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NAME
ucfq - query the ucf database
SYNOPSIS
usage: ucfq [options] (/path/to/file|package)[/path/to/file|package ...]
OPTIONS
- --help h Print out a usage message.
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- --debug -d Turn on debugging mode.
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- --verbose -v Make the script more verbose..
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- --with-colons -w
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Normally, the script presents the information in a human readable
tabular format, but that may be harder for a machine to parse. With
this option, the output is a compact, colon separated line, with no
dividers, headers, or footer.
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- --state-dr dir
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Set the state directory to "/path/to/dir" instead of the default
"/var/lib/ucf". Used mostly for testing.
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DESCRIPTION
This script takes a set of arguments, each of which is a package name
(and thus does not contain a /) or a full path to a configuration
file, and outputs the associated package, if any, if the file exists
on disk, and whether it has been modified by the user. The output is
either a human readable tabular form, or a compact colon-separated
machine friendly format.
This script can potentially be used in package "postrm" scripts
during purge to query the system for configuration files that may
still exist on the system, and whether these files have been locally
modified by the user --- assuming that the package registered all the
configuration files with ucf using "ucfr".
CAVEATS
This is very inchoate, at the moment, and needs testing.
BUGS
None Known so far.
AUTHOR
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta\@debian.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This script is a part of the Ucf package, and is
Copyright (c) 2006 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta\@debian.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA