Bug 13744

Summary: Support "porcelain" option to preserve output format for script parsing
Product: [Yocto Project Subprojects] opkg Reporter: Scot Salmon <scotsalmon>
Component: opkgAssignee: Alex Stewart <alex.stewart>
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Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Undecided    
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Multiple   
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Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Scot Salmon 2020-01-21 21:30:51 UTC
Other tools (notably git log, https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log) support a command line option to request that the output format conform to a script-friendly format that won't change between versions. This would be useful for scripting opkg.