Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

[Nate Amsden <aphro@portal.aphroland.org>]

Alan Shutko wrote:
> 
> aphro@portal.aphroland.org writes:
> 
> > [admin@istest admin]$ rpm -q -f mkfontdir
> > file mkfontdir: No such file or directory
> 
> [09:29:02] hubert:~ $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
> [09:29:10] hubert:/usr/X11R6/bin $ rpm -qf mkfontdir
> XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-20
> 
> Was there a mkfontdir in admin?  If not, why were you asking what RPM
> it (the non-existent file) came from?

i was asking the system to show me all files named mkfontdir,
which that command didn't do(just as comparison to the dpkg
command dpkg -S mkfontdir)

nate

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