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Re: which pkg contains that file



On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:50:59AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:16AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > Well, now I'm confused. The source for my information was the output of
> > apt-cache show:
> > 
> > peter:~ $ apt-cache show pico
> > Package: pico
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: non-free/editors
> > Installed-Size: 236
> > Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
> > Architecture: i386
> > Source: pine
> > Version: 4.44L-1
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1)
> > Suggests: spell
> > Filename: sid/pine/pico_4.44L-1_i386.deb
> 
> That Filename: field definitely didn't come from the Debian archive. At
> some point I think you must have been using some other source. This
> repository seems to produce Filename: fields like that:
> 
>   deb http://www.braincells.com/debian sid/
> 
> > Size: 85042
> > MD5sum: 494c866ea4db3f98a5f5661b772b9c3b
> 
> ... and indeed the size and md5sum of the pico package you can get from
> that repository match.

Many thanks for doing that bit of detective work - I must have a look at
the braincells repository more closely, as I wasn't aware that they had
a pico package.

Take care,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Whysall
peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18

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