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Re: exim 3.22-4 dependency problem



Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> > [1] When searching for libfoo.so.4's package, it will not only find
> > the package containing /lib/libfoo.so.4, but also the package
> > containing /bar/bazlib/libfoo.so.4. From a quick skim of the archive
> > only acroread, gnat, and petsc2.1.0-dev may be affected by this.
> 
> Why don't you make it look explicitely for */lib/libfoo.so.4?

You can't AFAICS. dpkg --search is "clever". It interprets search
terms beginning with a slash as requests for an exact match, and
matches substrings otherwise (the latter is used by me). It doesn't
understand wildcards or regexps, either. Sigh.

-- 
Robbe

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