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

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

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:24:45AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote:
> 
> > >               dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
> > >                   Search for a filename from installed packages.
> > 
> > How is this unclear, exactly?
> 
> It doesn't say, "Search for a filename THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN an
> installed package."  Why wouldn't the above include
> programmatically-generated configuration files?  They're "from" the
> package.

They're not "from" any package -- they're created by programs that are
themselves from packages. But how on Earth can you keep information as to
programs that created files? It's a stupid and pointless exercise. Please see
my other posts as to the explanations why.

-- Thomas Adam
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