On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Nov-00, 09:06 (CST), Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > > Mirror as in duplicate, separately. Something like: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ > > base-passwd.extrafiles: > > /etc/passwd > > dpkg.extrafiles: > > /etc/alternatives/* > > nvi.extrafiles: > > /usr/bin/vi > > vim.extrafiles: > > /usr/bin/vi > So if I had both vim and nvi installed, what does dpkg -S /usr/bin/vi > return? All the packages involved in the vi alternatives. Compare and contrast with `dpkg -S /usr/lib', say. > The advantage of a "dpkg-register" is that update-alternatives > could call it too. It'd have to do something like: PKG=`dpkg -S /usr/bin/vim | sed 's/:.*//'` dpkg-register /usr/bin/vi $PKG to deal with that, and it probably wouldn't cope well if you manually changed which alternative was being used (which is done by manually ln -sf'ing over the /etc/alternatives link, iirc). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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