On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:36:23AM +0900, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote: > > > I think it can. Try it on a package that you haven't got installed. > > > Brendan Simon. > > > > No -- the reason it works in this particular case is because as86 is > > mentioned in the description of bin86. If a file isn't mentioned in the > > description, or somewhere similar, apt-cache search won't find it. > > darn, thought that might be the case. > > as a side note, does anyone have a fool-proof way of determining which > package a file on a given system "belongs" to? typically, i grep > among /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list, but i don't think this will turn up > files that are created during the installation process (as compared to > files that are included inside of debian packages that just get > unpacked). > dpkg -S <filename> should do the trick (works for me :-). MBG -- Matthew Guenther mguenthe@netcom.ca Victory uber allies! http://www.netcom.ca/~mguenthe/
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