Paul Wise: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 06:51 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> I believe this is solved (albeit differently) in apt-file/3.0~exp >> (currently only in experimental). In the experimental version of >> apt-file, you can configure whether apt-file should fetch source >> Contents (in e.g. /etc/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf). > > Hmm, I would have thought apt-file would fetch source contents > automatically when you have deb-src in your sources.list. >
It will per next release. >> To search in the source Contents, you would do something like: >> >> apt-file search --index-names dsc <search-string-here> > > Hmm, I wonder why this is dsc and not deb-src or src? > It has to do with how the indices are named in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf. If you do not like a particular name, you can rename it to anything you like. > Hmm, -a source is less typing :) > > BTW, does -a source still work? > No, I do not believe it will for two reasons: * By default only the "deb" indices are considered. * apt does not assign an architecture to source indices. Thanks, ~Niels
