[R-sig-Debian] kvoptions.sty

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 December 2008 at 17:06, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
| 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.  

Yes -- what I meant to say more clearly is that I'm surprised the package
doesn't drop a file into /etc/cron.weekly/ or /etc/cron.montly/ to call
apt-file update regularly, possibly coupled with a config variable to turn
this off etc pp

Dirk

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