On 20-Nov-00, 09:06 (CST), Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > Mirror as in duplicate, separately. Something like: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ > base-passwd.extrafiles: > /etc/passwd > dpkg.extrafiles: > /etc/alternatives/* > nvi.extrafiles: > /usr/bin/vi > vim.extrafiles: > /usr/bin/vi
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So if I had both vim and nvi installed, what does dpkg -S /usr/bin/vi return? The advantage of a "dpkg-register" is that update-alternatives could call it too. Another (very small) advantage is that it could write to one file, which could be searched all at once rather than having to open each *.extrafiles file. Dpkg -S is already slow enough. :-) steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
