Re: apt-file

From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:12:01 -0800

On 12/18/07, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

apt-file update

tried to download some huge Contents.gz files, so I purged apt-file. If
diffs were produced of Contents.gz files so that subsequent "apt-file
update" runs were relatively brief, it would be ok, but downloading huge

What you might try is 'wajig' then. 'wajig whichpkg' does roughly the
same thing, answering the
question "which package does a specified file belong to". And it
doesn't seem to need to download those largish files either.

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  - From: Tom Allison
- Re: apt-file
  - From: Wu-Kung Sun
- Re: apt-file
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