Re: dpkg -L (was: Re: conflicts with libcap-dev)

[Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>]

Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org> writes:

> bfk:~$ dpkg -c manpages-dev_1.34-2_all.deb | grep cap
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1110 1999-11-27 17:45:49 ./usr/share/man/man2/capget.2.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2000-12-26 17:29:42 ./usr/share/man/man2/capset.2.gz -> capget.2.gz
> bfk:~$
> 
> damn.
> 
> bfk:~$ dpkg -L manpages-dev | grep cap
> bfk:~$
> 
> Is -L supposed to behave that way?

"dpkg -L" lists files in an installed version of a package.  "dpkg -c"
instead examines a package file.  Hence the difference.

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