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
The problem isn't dpkg -S ... it _does_ work the way you want it to.
The real question here is why the heck are binaries that already exist
somewhere else (usually /usr/X11R6/bin) copied into /usr/bin/X11. I'm
guessing maybe they're hard-linked or copied by post-install scripts, so
they wouldn't show up on a dpkg -L or dpkg -S. I don't know why they're
there (maybe for compatibility reasons?), though.
--
Tom
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready
tomorrow to call it falsehood."
-William James
