On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 17:48 US/Pacific, Ben Hines wrote:
Oh I got you now. You were explaining how to use dpkg with -c and -L options!Erm, that was just an example of how to get a contents listing. It will work with any package. But, if you want to try sagasu please do let me know how it works so i can put it in stable.Thanks, Ben. I'm about to give it a try, but the sagasu package depends on a bunch of other packages that I don't have on my machine, and it will take pretty long until I see how it really works with successful compilation of all of them.
AFAIK, unfortunately, there's no simple way - i.e., there's no general way - to answer the question, "what does a package provide?", prior to fully installing it first and finding out by hand.
This will do it:fink build sagasu dpkg -c /sw/fink/debs/sagasu_1.0.6-2_darwin-powerpc.deb OR, if you want to go ahead and install it: fink install sagasu dpkg -L sagasu
So, "sagasu" has nothing to do with search for tools/modules within a package. I was totally misled by its name ...
That's not what I had in mind. I was asking if Fink provides a tool or a "feature" of its own wich which end-users can search globally, i.e., ALL .deb packages, for a file/module they specify (hopefully, with regular expressions), and tell them which package(s) contain the target file/module, if any.
Anyway, the compilation of sagasu has already started, and there is no special reason to abort it. So, I will let you know when I confirm it works.
Cheers,
Kow
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