Bug#45406: PROPOSAL] Config files must have manpages
On 18-Sep-99, 23:23 (CDT), Raul Miller <raul@usatoday.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:23:53PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> > (Actually, if there is any easy way to use the debian package
> > management system to find out this info, I suppose that would make me
> > more than happy...)
>
> Sadly, there's no ready reference for all the various interfaces
> which have evolved to extract information out of the packaging
> system. However, the following works, at least for now:
>
> perl -n00e 'print if m(/etc/profile)' /var/lib/dpkg/status
Yech. What's wrong with 'dpkg -S /etc/profile'?
Of course, this won't find it if is managed by the maintainer scripts
rather than being a dpkg conffile, in which case you're stuck grepping
(or perling) /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst....
steveg
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