Hello,

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:40:12 +0300
Nikolay Shaplov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> > > $ ipkg install libc6-dev
> > > Package libc6-dev (2.5-r9) installed in root is up to date.
> > > Nothing to be done
> > >                    
> > > $ ipkg search stdio.h
> > 
> > It would be rather natural to expect it to accept full path. 
> Hm... Don't think most users would think it is really natural :-/

Logic is simple: if you want to find out a *package* which contains
file, you must supply unique identifier of a file. What
uniquely identifies a file? Not name, it's highly ambiguous, but a
full path.

> 
> > Looking
> > at the source, it uses fnmatch(), so following should work too: 
> > ipkg search '*stdio.h'
> 
> Thanks... This works... Added this to FAQ.

Thanks!



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