"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an > > exact file, and not get any extraneous results. > > You mean like this? > > hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir > xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
That will also match /tmp/whatever/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir. Ok, that's a rare case, but possible. > The real question here is why the heck are binaries that already exist > somewhere else (usually /usr/X11R6/bin) copied into /usr/bin/X11. They aren't. [22:02:39] wesley:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 30 17:19 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin Symlink for historical reasons. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! New systems generate new problems.
