Re: make-kpkg

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 5:19:33 AM, Ben wrote:
> > [collinbm@virtue(12:06pm)-~]%dpkg -S kpkg
> > kernel-package: /usr/bin/make-kpkg
> > kernel-package: /usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck
> > kernel-package: /usr/share/man/man1/make-kpkg.1.gz
> 
> > Works fine for me, do you even have kernel-package installed, and is it
> > not corrupted?
> 
>     No, that is why I was looking for which package contained it.

# man dpkg
[cut]
       dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
              Search  for a filename from installed packages. All
                                          ^^^^^^^^^
              standard shell wildchars can be used  in  the  pat­
              tern.

What you want is the Contents file.
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