Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:28:09PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> > Is it fairly common, then, that packages only create their config files,
> > and don't include them in the package originally. I can see times when
>
> Of course it is. There are *hundreds* of files that are created in this
> manner, usually brought about because they're created by the very programs in
> other packages, and so there is no way of ever supplying the files in the
> first place.
Or by debconf-ization of packages, which often need this.
> > that would lead to confusion. Is there another way to find out where a
> > file belongs?
>
> No, since any answer would be completely erroneous.
Actually, we have been requesting this functionality to the dpkg crew for a
while. It will arrive someday.
The idea is that we will "register" dynamically-created stuff with a package
in the maintainer script.
But right now, all you can do if you *really* need to find out where a
package came from is to use dpkg -L, and when that fails, try to grep for
that filename in /var/lib/dpkg/info, which might or might not help.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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