Subject: Re: finding a package name given a filename
Date: Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 10:41:24PM +0200
In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 03:51:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with a lot
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 03:51:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with a lot of packages is that the executable is linked
from a shorter name, and the links are not part of the package but are
created in the postinst scripts.
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:48:09PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
Here is a short perl program that seems to do the same thing. Note that
it doesn't have much error checking.
It does, more or less, do the same thing. I didn't know perl had a
saner readlink() than C or the shell (in C, I had to do
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
I'll produce a .deb in the near future. In the meantime, use the
source.
The .deb is now available at ftp://ftp.jyu.fi/pub/linux/local-DEBs/.
The directory structure is an imitation of the main archive; you'll
find the
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 03:51:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with a lot of packages is that the executable is linked
from a shorter name, and the links are not part of the package but are
created in the postinst scripts. The xemacs example is a really good
one.
Hi,
Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package
from which it has been extracted ?
This fonctionnality is available with rpm : 'rpm -qf as86'
I've read dpkg manpages but found nothing...
Thanks,
--
On 29 Nov 1998, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package
from which it has been extracted ?
dpkg --search as86
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package
from which it has been extracted ?
dpkg --search as86
Thanks for your answer but your suggestion doesn't match my question :
=-=-=-=
[titine]:~/$ dpkg --search as86
bin86:
On 29 Nov 1998, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package
from which it has been extracted ?
dpkg --search as86
Thanks for your answer but your suggestion doesn't match my question :
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Didn't you want to know on what package was as86 extracted!?
as86 belongs to the bin86 package !!
I think that's what you want!
Yep, you're right ;-)
_But_ try to do a :
$ dpkg -S xemacs
And you will see all an unnecessary garbage instead of
*- Eric Jacoboni wrote about Re: finding a package name given a filename
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Didn't you want to know on what package was as86 extracted!?
as86 belongs to the bin86 package !!
I think that's what you want!
Yep, you're right ;-)
_But_ try to do
11 matches
Mail list logo
