On the bo (1.3.1) system I tried this on, I got:
vesta# dpkg -S /sbin/getty
getty: /sbin/getty
Which as I said, lead me up a blind ally.
>From your response, I have just tried:
vesta# dpkg -s getty
Package: getty
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 40
Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: poeigl
Version: 1.45a-3
Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4)
Description: agetty, an alternative Linux getty
agetty is the standard Debian getty. It is a SYSV/SunOS4 getty
program with useful features for hardwired and dial-in tty lines.
So the source package I should have been looking for was base/poeigl,
which I have now found.
Unfortunately the document I was following didn't warn of the
possibility of the source package not being named the same as the
binary package, and I missed the -s option to dpkg.
Not to worry, case closed. Many thanks for your helpful response.
am
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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getty vs minicom
Date: 07/19/99 18:34
According to Andrew MacIntyre:
> >Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors.
>
> Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as
> base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either
> source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs.
It's in util-linux:
% dpkg -S /sbin/getty
util-linux: /sbin/getty
For some packages the name is different from the source package; in that
case, you'd have to do a 'dpkg -s binary-package' to find out the source
package (it's the Source: line) but that's not the case for util-linux.
The source package for util-linux is simply called util-linux.
Mike.
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