On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 6:47 AM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > > On 3/25/24 20:24, enh wrote: > > But "dpkg-query -S $(which $NAME)" is pretty easy to do the mapping > > yourself on > > debian... > > > > > > (yeah, though i suspect anyone trying to do this hypothetical "swap package > > $X > > for toybox" would want the _opposite_ mapping, from package name to all the > > commands. and i don't know of a way to ask apt that question? > > $ dpkg-query -L tar | grep bin/ > /bin/tar > /usr/sbin/rmt-tar > /usr/sbin/tarcat
ah, interesting. > > other than > > brute-forcing all of the executables in all of the directories in $PATH, > > anyway.) > > Checking the $PATH would be clever but the above covers it for me. > > There are some insane packages which crap binaries under /usr/lib, such as > /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash or /usr/lib/man-db/manconv and > generally I > consider these packages to be maintained by madmen. > > I mean honestly: > > $ cat /usr/bin/7z > #! /bin/sh > exec /usr/lib/p7zip/7z "$@" > > Why would you do that? Why would ANYONE voluntarily DO that? weird. it's not even update-alternatives' fault, because that's just symlinks... > Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
