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Some introduction: ------------------ As some of you know the Linux Standard Base http://www.linuxbase.org/ is working on some standards for applications on Linux systems. I (and a few others) am working on a Least Common Denomiator (LCD) package format to quickly provide a way to install LSB compliant applications on compliant distro implementations. One of the parts of the reference implementations we are working on is the meta-packages that say "This is a LSB-compliant distro implementation". If this package is installed then the applications can depend on "lsb" and be assured of a system environment they can work in. Look at the archive of our mailing list http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/7337/0/ to see what we are really up to. I posted a FAQ a couple of months ago http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/7337/2001/3/0/5258616/ and only a few things have changed since then. My question ----------- The LSB has a MySQL data base of the files and commands that are part of a compliant implementation. I hope to use this DB to autogenerate the depends: list of the meta-package. However either I am missing something or this is a compute intensive job. For example if I am searching for the package that contains the command "tr" then I search for "dpkg --search bin/tr". But that gets me $ dpkg -S bin/tr xscreensaver: /usr/X11R6/bin/triangle shellutils: /bin/true textutils: /usr/bin/tr traceroute: /usr/sbin/traceroute ispell: /usr/bin/tryaffix xscreensaver: /usr/X11R6/bin/truchet groff: /usr/bin/troff netbase: /usr/bin/tracepath6 tree: /usr/bin/tree netbase: /usr/bin/tracepath netbase: /usr/bin/traceroute6 transfig: /usr/X11R6/bin/transfig tcpd: /usr/sbin/try-from AFICT dpkg --search does not honor $: $ dpkg -S bin/tr\$ dpkg: *bin/tr$* not found but grep does: $ dpkg -S bin/tr | grep "bin/tr$" textutils: /usr/bin/tr I can then use the same techniques as dpkg-shlibdeps (potato version :) to find the package name and put that in my depends list. But, I have to repeat this for every bin/* and lib/* entity mandated in the LSB DB. It takes a while. Is there a faster way? I've tried a few bulk searches by asking dpkg -S to find more than one file but there are some common prefixes in the LSB mandated commands too :(. Also, how do I query for diverted entities like awk? Albert. -- Albert den Haan, Lead Developer @ Linux Port Team . Corel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 728-0826 x 5318 -- The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do not send private mail to the poster using your mailer's "reply" feature. CC's of mail to mailing lists are OK. Problem reports to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The poster's email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
