From: William F. Dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I do this from cron every night: > > #! /bin/bash > cd /usr/local/fromDebian > DEBIAN=ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists > wget -o LOG-unstable-contents $DEBIAN/unstable/Contents-i386.gz > mv Contents-i386.gz Contents.unstable.gz > > Then I could do > zgrep gvim /usr/local/fromDebian/Contents.unstable.gz > or the like to answer the question "where does gvim come from?"
Thanks for the tip - this does just what I want. Actually, I have a potato CD, which has the Contents file on, so I can do this offline, as well. Just one other question - I had a problem yesterday with /etc/papersize not being found. Searching the Contents file got me nowhere, nor did dpkg -S /etc/papersize on a system with it installed. It turns out that /etc/papersize is a configuration file for libpaperg, and as such it wasn't in the list of files installed. How would I find out where this comes from? Thanks again, Paul.
