Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?
Hi there,
A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I wanted to
install it and I try a apt-file ctags | grep bin which didn't show anything.
Then I told myself maybe I already had it and tried a tab completion.
As I did have this tools I wanted to know which package installed it with
dpkg -S /usr/bin/ctags
Here is the output :
19:55 robotux@simplet ~% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 dpkg -S /usr/bin/ctags
dpkg: /usr/bin/ctags not found.
zsh: exit 1 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 dpkg -S /usr/bin/ctags
*but* :
19:55 robotux@simplet ~% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 dpkg -S usr/bin/ctags
exuberant-ctags: /usr/bin/ctags-exuberant
It's related to the fact /usr/bin/ctags is a double symbolic link as it is an
alternative. dpkg -S /usr/bin/firefox correctly answer iceweasel.
Is it an expected behaviour because /usr/bin/ctags could be installed by
several packages (but *has* been installed by only one package on a given
system) ?
I prefer to ask you here before filling an useless bug report.
Reguards
--
Thomas Preud'homme
Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian
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