Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an > > exact file, and not get any extraneous results. > > You mean like this? > > hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an > exact file, and not get any extraneous results. You mean like this? hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir The problem isn

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i was asking the system to show me all files named mkfontdir, > which that command didn't do(just as comparison to the dpkg > command dpkg -S mkfontdir) No, you weren't doing that. rpm -qf and dpkg -S do different things. Something to do the equivalent o

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Alan Shutko wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]$ rpm -q -f mkfontdir > > file mkfontdir: No such file or directory > > [09:29:02] hubert:~ $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin > [09:29:10] hubert:/usr/X11R6/bin $ rpm -qf mkfontdir > XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-20 > > Was there a mkfontdir

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]$ rpm -q -f mkfontdir > file mkfontdir: No such file or directory [09:29:02] hubert:~ $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin [09:29:10] hubert:/usr/X11R6/bin $ rpm -qf mkfontdir XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-20 Was there a mkfontdir in admin? If not, why were you asking wha

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-26 Thread aphro
> Hey people. Does anyone know if there are any plans to fix this? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir > dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir not found. > > This is the one thing that rpm does better, IMHO. I could do an rpm > -qf you mean like this? : [EMAIL PROT

dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Does anyone know if there are any plans to fix this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir not found. This is the one thing that rpm does better, IMHO. I could do an rpm -qf and a file. It didn't matter if the path was absolut