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cronfy

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Registered: 2007-04-26

Posts: 5

pacman does not show some packages' files with -Qo or -Ql

Hello.

I noticed pacman cannot find files installed by some packages with -Qo or -Ql. In example, there is ttf-ms-fonts package that has files installed in /usr/share/fonts/TTF extracted from /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/*.exe, but pacman does not say these extracted files belong to ttf-ms-fonts:

[cronfy@support-isadra ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/fonts/TTF/tahoma.ttf
No package owns /usr/share/fonts/TTF/tahoma.ttf
[cronfy@support-isadra ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/fonts/TTF/verdana.ttf
No package owns /usr/share/fonts/TTF/verdana.ttf

[root@support-isadra cronfy]# pacman -Ql ttf-ms-fonts
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/andale32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/arial32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/arialb32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/comic32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/courie32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/georgi32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/impact32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/times32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/trebuc32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/verdan32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/wd97vwr32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/webdin32.exe

pacman -R ttf-ms-fonts removes all *.ttf files correctly, thus it knows somehow these files are there.

Well.. I probably understand why this happens, but it does not make pacman behavior convenient :-)

Is there any way to find out which package installed files that do not belong to any package? :-)

Last edited by cronfy (2007-05-16 07:18:38)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: pacman does not show some packages' files with -Qo or -Ql

ttf-ms-fonts is unique because the .install script does the actual file installation and removal. The license doesn't permit to modify the source archives or to distribute the raw .ttf files, that's why this approach was necessary.

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