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Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?



On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote:

> >               dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
> >                   Search for a filename from installed packages.
> 
> How is this unclear, exactly?

It doesn't say, "Search for a filename THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN an
installed package."  Why wouldn't the above include
programmatically-generated configuration files?  They're "from" the
package.
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