On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote: maor>On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: maor> maor>> util-linux does not install the whereis command from the utils. The maor>> whereis command is used to find the location of a Unix command and is very maor>> important. maor> maor>Actually the whereis command is pretty useless because the places it maor>looks are hardcoded in. Much better is locate. I don't mind including maor>it if you insist. locate shows huge amounts of information and does not restrict the search to sensible locations.
I can do whereis ls to find ls + manpages in standard locations. if I do locate ls then the screen will be scrolling with lots of other stuff. Also whereis is commonly available in other linux distributions. maor> maor>> Reviewing the source package I noted that a large number of other tools maor>> are also not installed. What are the reason for this? maor> maor>They are installed from other sources. util-linux is a really ugly maor>package. Whenever possible, maintainers tried to find the upstream maor>packages for the tools and use them. That way new versions and maor>upstream bugs get fixed. But I noticed that a lot of the tools are NOT in other debian packages. {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} {} Snail Mail: FTS Box 466, 135 N.Oakland Ave, Pasadena, CA 91182 {} {} FISH Internet System Administrator at Fuller Theological Seminary {} {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5