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and subject line Re: does it work when using apt-file update?
has caused the Debian Bug report #437737,
regarding apt-file: does not work
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Package: apt-file
Version: 2.0.8.2
Severity: normal
$ apt-file find bzip2
---- returns nothing ----
$ apt-file -v find bzip2
D: got 'deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free'
D: kept 'deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free'
D: got 'deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing-proposed-updates main
contrib non-free'
D: kept 'deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing-proposed-updates main
contrib non-free'
D: got 'deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free'
D: kept 'deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free'
D: got 'deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main'
D: kept 'deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main'
D: regexp: ^(.*?bzip2[^\s]*)\s+(\S+)\s*$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set
to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt-file depends on:
ii curl 7.16.4-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii gzip 1.3.12-3 The GNU compression utility
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.21+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libconfig-file-perl 1.4-2 Parses simple configuration files
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii wget 1.10.2-3 retrieves files from the web
apt-file recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.1.0
On Fri, April 4, 2008 13:00, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> No, I had not read the manual page, sorry.
>
>
> After running apt-file update as root, it works.
Ah, good to know.
> So I would change this report into a wishlist:
>
>
> 1) there should be a command to run apt-file find directly on the remote
> database by downloading it on the fly
>
> 1) apt-file find should be more user-friendly: if it does not find a
> cached database, or if the cache is old, it should suggest using apt-file
> update or to run directly on the remote database
>
> 3) during installation, debconf should ask whether one wants to activate
> a weekly cron job that runs apt-get update
Thank you for your suggestion. New versions of apt-file already warn when
there's no usable data, so that part is fixed. About updating right after
installation, or through cron, or as non-root, those are already other
wishlist items which we're considering how to best implement. So I think
it's safe to close this bug now.
cheers,
Thijs
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