On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:04:53 +0200
Paul Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > > $ 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.
This is developer logic. ;-)
As a user I often use debian web interface to find packages that
provides certain file. When I do it I do not know where this file
should be located. And I do not remember that I ever looked for package
knowing full path to the file...

This regexp will do, but this should be mentioned somewhere (FAQ is a
good place) so that users can understand what does developers of ipkg
thinks file name is ;-) 


> > > Looking
> > > at the source, it uses fnmatch(), so following should work too: 
> > > ipkg search '*stdio.h'
> > 
> > Thanks... This works... Added this to FAQ.
> 
> Thanks!
BTW, I added Navigation Menu to some Angstrom pages, so it would be
more comfortable for me to browse them. Is it ok?


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