[R-sig-Debian] kvoptions.sty

[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:38:19 -0600,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

> On 29 December 2008 at 16:15, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
>> A useful tool for these purposes is the apt-file package, that
>> provides the command line program of the same name:
>> 
>> $ apt-file search 'kvoptions.sty' texlive-latex-recommended:
>> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty

> Sweet. That seems to be a generalisation / implementation of the idea
> of grep'ing in a large index file I mentioned earlier.  Odd that it
> doesn't update its cache, though:

> edd at ron:~$ ls -ltr /var/cache/apt/apt-file total 27296 -rw-r--r-- 1
> root root 14382660 2008-06-23 15:16
> ron_ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_Contents-i386.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13521294 2008-06-26 03:13
> ron_ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_Contents-i386.gz edd at ron:~$

You need to do 'apt-file update' for that, but it's a drag though, so
it's hard to keep it up to date.  As you say, however, waiting for Lenny
means we don't need to do it that often...

$ ls -ltr /var/cache/apt/apt-file
total 41584
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10809175 2008-12-17 15:58 ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_Contents-amd64.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   153440 2008-12-24 12:36 www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_sid_Contents-amd64.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13705936 2008-12-27 08:19 ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_Contents-amd64.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14990537 2008-12-27 20:25 ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_Contents-amd64.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2850073 2008-12-29 14:09 ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_Contents-amd64.gz


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Seb