Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository
On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 19:15:10 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:52:37AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Be aware that apt-file searches for filenames in packages,
> > rather than package names and their descriptions.
> >
> > (And that's filenames, not pathnames.)
>
> Hm. I don't know what you mean by this, but I propose, as an
> experiment, that you compare the output of
>
> apt-file search ls
>
> and
>
> apt-file search /bin/ls
>
> ... my take is that it searches for matches whithin the full path.
Sorry, I meant to write directories.
Cheers,
David.
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