On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Nov-00, 09:06 (CST), Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mirror as in duplicate, separately. Something like: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ > > base-passwd.extrafiles: > > /etc/passwd > > dpkg.extrafiles: > > /etc/alternatives/* > > nvi.extrafiles: > > /usr/bin/vi > > vim.extrafiles: > > /usr/bin/vi > So if I had both vim and nvi installed, what does dpkg -S /usr/bin/vi > return?
All the packages involved in the vi alternatives. Compare and contrast
with `dpkg -S /usr/lib', say.
> The advantage of a "dpkg-register" is that update-alternatives
> could call it too.
It'd have to do something like:
PKG=`dpkg -S /usr/bin/vim | sed 's/:.*//'`
dpkg-register /usr/bin/vi $PKG
to deal with that, and it probably wouldn't cope well if you manually
changed which alternative was being used (which is done by manually ln
-sf'ing over the /etc/alternatives link, iirc).
Cheers,
aj
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