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which package owns a file
which package owns a file
Posted Feb 27, 2007 23:00 UTC (Tue) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813)In reply to: which package owns a file by rfunk
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
Yeah but whats up with this?
dpkg -S /etc/passwd
dpkg: /etc/passwd not found.
Whereas:
rpm -qf /etc/passwd
setup-2.7.3-1mdv2007.0
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which package owns a file
Posted Feb 27, 2007 23:15 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
That's a generated file rather than one installed from a package. (The base-passwdpackage generates it, but I realize your point is about how to get that information.)
The easiest way I know to get that sort of information is to grep the files
in /var/lib/dpkg/info/.