Re: finding a package name given a filename

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 . The directory structure is an imitation of the main archive; you'll find the

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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 d

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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 scr

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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 pr

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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. > > /usr/

Re: finding a package name given a filename

*- 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 !! >> >>

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 a : $ dpkg -S xemacs And you will see all an unnecessary garbage instead

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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 q

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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 bin

Re: finding a package name given a filename

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