"dpkg -S" or "apt-file" give me an incorrect or no answer, most of the
times.
Whereas this url always returns a correct answer:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
Best,
Fabrice
Le 01/04/2024 à 09:58, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit :
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 01:03:04PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
On 1/4/24 10:18, gregor herrmann wrote:
% dpkg -S $(which mv > coreutils: /usr/bin/mv
On bookworm:
$ dpkg -S $(which mv)
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/mv
This is caused by the /bin -> /usr/bin shift.
The reason I'm replying is after one, probably two decades this still
annoys me:
$ dpkg -S /etc/profile
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/profile
It was put their by the Debian install, and I'm unlikely to change it.
Its fairly important security wise. It would be nice if "dpkg -S" told
me base-files.deb installed it. It would be nice if debsums told me if
it changed. There are lots of files like this, such as /etc/environment
and /etc/hosts. There are some directories like /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
which should only have files claimed by some .deb.
This is the reason I never expect dpkg -S to work and dpkg -L to be
correct. The (probably) oldest registered bug report about this is
#213907, from 2003.
RPM has %ghost since before that, of course.
