Get a List of conffiles in a deb package in python

Question

I want to get the list of conffiles associated with a deb package using python. I am working on a project for which I need to know if any conffile installed by a package is modified so I need to have a list of conffiles installed by a package so that I can use it to see which of the conffile has been modified.

I tried to use python-apt library documentation , but could not find any method for doing that , Please suggest me a way of doing that. I know I can extract the control information and read the raw conffiles file but I think there might be a method in the library itself.

Answer 1

this is tested on python-apt on squeeze: the package I used is:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssh/openssh-server_5.5p1-6+squeeze1_amd64.deb

from apt.debfile import DebPackage
ssh = DebPackage('openssh-server_5.5p1-6+squeeze1_amd64.deb')
print ssh.control_content('conffiles').split('\n')

[u'/etc/init.d/ssh', u'/etc/default/ssh', u'/etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server', u'/etc/ufw/applications.d/openssh-server', u'/etc/pam.d/sshd', u'']

you need to strip out the last one

print ssh.data_content('etc/init.d/ssh')
u'#! /bin/sh\n\n### BEGIN INIT INFO\n#......'

you need to strip out the first slash

Answer 2

状态标志

dpkg --status bash