Re: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

[Mark Hedges <hedges@ucsd.edu>]

Right, I forgot xorg switched over to the link.  (Should have 
remembered - I had to reformat because phototk had something in 
there, so the process could never complete and dpkg was fubar.)

Weird, I thought that was a shell built-in, not a program.

Thanks for your help.

Mark




On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, MJ Ray wrote:

> From: MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>
> To: hedges@ucsd.edu, debian-www@lists.debian.org
> Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2006 09:18:19 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Re: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> 
> Mark Hedges <hedges@ucsd.edu>
> > Can't search for contents with keyword '['
> 
> I wonder if that's a bug or intentional.  It seems to return
> "No keyword given for search." no matter how I escape it.
> 
> > My etch systems have /usr/X11R6/bin/[
> > 
> > Is that a hack?
> 
> If your /usr/X11R6/bin is a symlink to /bin, then probably not.
> 
> You can check the symlink with ls -l /usr/X11R6 and you can search your 
> system for which package contains it with dpkg -S '\[' (here it is 
> coreutils) and then use the web search to check that it should be in 
> coreutils.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> -- 
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