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Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (paulwratt) — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:48:20 +0000

golinux wrote:

If there is not already a bug report please submit one at bugs.devuan.org

I edited the other thread and the above post to reflect the situation.

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:00:21 +0000

If there is not already a bug report please submit one at bugs.devuan.org

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (paulwratt) — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:04:09 +0000

there is now a 100% solution, no patch needed the Devuan Jessie repos

EDIT: in fact after a quick check it turns out @golinux is right, there is no issue with the original script IF your repo points to deb.devuan.org:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11397#p11397

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (paulwratt) — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 06:07:18 +0000

golinux wrote:

Count_Cucaracha wrote:
GNUser wrote:
Here's a robust workaround for the time being
Its robustness was short-lived as that option to apt-file no longer exists.
More information as to why not would be helpful. Perhaps it was PEBKAC . . .

that "workaround" wont help, because it searches the contents of the copied apt-file caches and uses the Debian repos, NOT the Devuan repos and caches created from them.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2291

looks for "dir/Content-_arch_.gz" instead of "dir/binary-_arch_/Packages.gz"

Cheers

Paul

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:51:44 +0000

Count_Cucaracha wrote:

GNUser wrote:
Here's a robust workaround for the time being
Its robustness was short-lived as that option to apt-file no longer exists.

More information as to why not would be helpful. Perhaps it was PEBKAC . . .

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (Count_Cucaracha) — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 05:04:27 +0000

GNUser wrote:

Here's a robust workaround for the time being

Its robustness was short-lived as that option to apt-file no longer exists.

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (GNUser) — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:23:06 +0000

Hats off, fsmithred. Your modification is much more elegant. Very nice.

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:36:36 +0000

Thank you for that gem! I've been missing apt-file for a long time.

Slight modification: I didn't copy the cache file. I copied the debian sources.list to my user's home and ran 'apt-file -s sources.list update' and it put an apt-file directory in ~/.cache.

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (GNUser) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:30:54 +0000

Here's a robust workaround for the time being:

1. On a Debian Jessie system:

$ sudo apt-file update

2. Copy /var/cache/apt/apt-file directory from Debian to Devuan
3. Copy /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian to Devuan, renaming it /etc/apt/debian-sources.list in Devuan so it doesn't conflict with Devuan's "real" sources.list
4. Put this in your ~/.bashrc:

alias apt-file='apt-file --sources-list /etc/apt/debian-sources.list'

Now apt-file searches work as expected, regardless of whether the package containing the file is already installed on your system or not. We're obviously searching through Debian's packages, but 99% of the time it'll be close enough. Just make sure to run apt-file as regular user, since regular user is the one who has the alias:

$ apt-file search foo

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (GNUser) — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 20:22:37 +0000

Very nice, but has one drawback: "dpkg -S" can only search the contents of packages that are already installed on the system. If the purpose of the search is to determine which package to install, "dpkg -S" isn't going to help.

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:13:28 +0000

Could you possibly add that to your Package manager magic incantations? And while you're there would be nice to have code tags around the commands.

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:28:55 +0000

I was chrooting into an old wheezy installation to run apt-file until someone showed me these:

 To find what package a file comes from:
dpkg -S 

To find what files come with a package:
dpkg -L

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (GNUser) — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:17:26 +0000

Thank you. I'm very happy to be part of this new community--it's truly an island of sanity. I have no interest in making my system orders of magnitude more complex so that I can (maybe) shave a few seconds off my boot time. When it comes to my OS, I'll take something I can more easily understand and control over something new and (supposedly) faster *anyday* Long live Devuan!

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:32:35 +0000

No worries. Welcome to the forum btw!

Re: [SOLVED] apt-file search not working

dummy@example.com (GNUser) — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:12:25 +0000

Oops, my bad. Sorry for missing that.