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 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/bin/xemacs -> /etc/alternatives/xemacs
> > /etc/alternatives/xemacs -> /usr/bin/xemacs20
> > /usr/bin/xemacs20 -> /etc/alternatives/xemacs20
> > /etc/alternatives/xemacs20 -> /usr/bin/xemacs-20.4-nomule (finally!!!)
> >
> > So doing a 'dpkg -S /usr/bin/xemacs' would not work because
> > /usr/bin/xemacs is actually not in the xemacs20-nomule package but is
> > created after the package is extracted.
>
> I was thinking about this, tried to find a utility to chase a symbolic
> link to a real file, but failed. I even asked if a local Unix guru
> knew one. He didn't.
>
> So I wrote one. Here's a sample session with it:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:25:31]:~$ dpkg -S `chase /usr/bin/xemacs`
> xemacs20-nomule: /usr/bin/xemacs-20.4-nomule
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:26:16]:~$
>
> The `chase' here is my small utility. Basically it takes a file name
> and finds the name of the real file it refers to, recursively
> dereferencing all the symlinks it encounters.
>
> The source tarball (with a copy of GNU GPL and all the Autoconf bells
> and whistles) is currently 28kB. If anyone is interested, I might
> upload it somewhere (probably metalab aka sunsite), or even generate a
> .deb of it (though I can't upload it to Debian yet, as I'm still
> waiting for my developer status application to be fully processed).
>
> Is anyone interested enough to make an upload worthwhile at this
> point?
>
Yes, I am. Any help on Debian(ese) would be appreciated!
>
> Antti-Juhani
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