Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[GarUlbricht7@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

"Carlos E. R." wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:29:57 +0200 (CEST):
>
>The Wednesday 2004-03-31 at 16:07 +0200, Frank.Herchet wrote:
>
>> > - You never, ever have to launch updatedb manually. 
>> > It's run automatically by Cron every day and after each reboot.
>>
>> that may be right, but mostly i use locate after installing a program
>> to find all corresponding files i need to run updatedb afterwards! 
>> i had never noticed that updatedb is running as cron, 
>> but maybe it's right :) ... i don't know...
>
> You don't need to do that. Suppose you installed package noname.rpm - 
> or even before installing it: just run "pin noname" 
> and it will tell you straight away if it is installed or not (and when),
> and exactly what files it contains, 
> together with the contens of the readme files.
>
> If there is no package of that name, 
> then it will search on the entire dvd 
> listing what package or packages suply that file.
>
[...]

I use pin all the time.
Everyday I thank Togan for suggesting it in SuSE (Unoffical) FAQ.

However, it is my understanding that when you install "pin'
it installs in /var/lib/pin at database called:  ARCHIEVES.gz

This archieves contains a summary of all the files so the DVD (or CD)
doesn't have to be mounted for pin to do its search.

However, if you installed SuSE via ftp, 
I don't know if you can download ARCHIEVES.gz.

I suppose so, but I couldn't find it.

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