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FS#7068 - pacman -Qo file

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Kayo Hamid (kayo) - Saturday, 05 May 2007, 01:47 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 31 May 2007, 07:08 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.0.3
Due in Version 3.1.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Pacman doesn't find package's owner of file into the /path/to/file.

Steps to Reproduce:

pacman -Qo /boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst is owned by grub 0.97-7

cd /boot/grub
pacman -Qo menu.lst
error: No package owns menu.ls
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 07:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in GIT
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 05 May 2007, 05:07 GMT
Note that "pacman -Qo ./menu.lst" will work, while the above command will not.

This should be a relatively straightforward fix.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 07 May 2007, 17:16 GMT
Actually, this is expected. Using absolute paths is the way pacman 2 works.

It's not hard to fix, but I'm going to relabel this as a Feature Request.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 07 May 2007, 17:29 GMT
$ pacman --version

.--. Pacman v2.9.8
/ _.-' .-. .-. .-. Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
\ '-. '-' '-' '-'
'--' This program may be freely redistributed under
the terms of the GNU General Public License

$ pacman -Qo menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst is owned by grub 0.97-7
$ pacman -Qo /boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst is owned by grub 0.97-7

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