*- On 14 Sep, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: make-kpkg" > Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 5:24:13 AM, Ben wrote: >> That's why. dpkg -S searches your /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files for the >> package owning it. I suggest looking at >> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for a search on the entire >> distribution. > > Well, that's kind of pointless for people who may not have access to the > net at the time of the search. :/ > > I was looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available except a grep on that > appears to only mention that package in the various kernel-source > descriptions. Ah well. Thanks to you and Ashley for the help. :) >
I keep a local copy of the Contents-{arch}.gz file on hand for such searches, this is what the web interface searches. % zgrep make-kpkg /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz usr/man/man8/make-kpkg.8.gz misc/kernel-package usr/sbin/make-kpkg misc/kernel-package -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------