Re: File search question

2001-10-21 Thread Eric C. Cooper
The "cruft" package tries to do this: $ apt-cache show cruft Package: cruft Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 640 Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.6-0.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2) Filename: pool/main/c/cruft/cruft_0.9.6-0.3_i386.deb Siz

Re: File search question

2001-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011021 12:38]: > Just wondering, is there a way to get a list of all the files on the > system that: > > (a) Aren't "owned" by any installed packages Well, it's easy to get a list of files owned by a particular package, but the packaging system would have no wa

File search question

2001-10-21 Thread Mark Carroll
Just wondering, is there a way to get a list of all the files on the system that: (a) Aren't "owned" by any installed packages (b) Differ from any default provided by a package ...? I guess that (b) would be impossible without consulting the original .deb's, unless the system stores md5sums or