Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

[Thomas Adam <thomas@edulinux.homeunix.org>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:44:33PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> What is the canonical method for determining to which package an
> installed file belongs?  dpkg -S seems to be the right *sort* of thing,
> but doesn't always work:
> 
> enoch:/share/download # dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
> debconf: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
> enoch:/share/download # dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list
> dpkg: /etc/apt/sources.list not found.
> enoch:/share/download # dpkg -S /etc/gpm.conf
> dpkg: /etc/gpm.conf not found.

It's doing *exactly* what you asked of it. Remember that dpkg -S will only
work for files that were *in* a package initially and not ones that were
*created*. /etc/apt/sources.list is created by apt-setup from 'base-config',
but does not reside in any package.

-- Thomas Adam

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