On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:13:21PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [1] When searching for libfoo.so.4's package, it will not only find > > > the package containing /lib/libfoo.so.4, but also the package > > > containing /bar/bazlib/libfoo.so.4. From a quick skim of the archive > > > only acroread, gnat, and petsc2.1.0-dev may be affected by this. > > > > Why don't you make it look explicitely for */lib/libfoo.so.4? > > You can't AFAICS. dpkg --search is "clever". It interprets search > terms beginning with a slash as requests for an exact match, and > matches substrings otherwise (the latter is used by me). It doesn't > understand wildcards or regexps, either. Sigh.
ulysses:~# dpkg --search '*/lib/libX11.so' xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
