Re: dpkg -S and symlinks
On Sunday 14 July 2002 04:54 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Fellas, just where does my inexperience reach a crescendo, and just
> where does Debian "owe me something"?:
>
It's a gift culture. No-one owes anyone anything. You give what you
can, when you want. The good thing is that they can then give it to
the next person without losing it themselves.
> Noting that the look command lacks the word herbicide, I will be a
> good Samaritan and inform somebody, or so i thought:
> I do
> $ man look
> "If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is
> used..." $ dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/words
> dpkg: /usr/share/dict/words not found.
"dpkg -S words" works fine, as does "find -name words".
The file name is "words", the full path name is "/usr/share/dict/words".
> Oh, I see it is a symlink. Odd, the dpkg man page doesn't mention -S
> doesn't know about symlinks.
It looks like it doesn't know about full paths. Symlinks don't seem to
be a problem.
> Must be a bug, no?
Don't think so, just yet another thing to learn. (There's always
another thing to learn).
>
> OK, apt-cache search mentions various clues, but I do an dpkg -L
> ispell and dont see /usr/share/dict/words there either.
I *think* that ispell is the checker engine, and the language-specific
dictionaries are packaged seperately.
- Derek
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