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Re: exim 3.22-4 dependency problem



On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:13:21PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> 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.

ulysses:~# dpkg --search '*/lib/libX11.so'
xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so

Marcus

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