Bug#387699: exim4: Should create /var/run/exim4/ if it is missing

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-09-16 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> [Andreas Metzler]
> > Hello,
> > apt-file (and packages.d.o) will not help you, as Contents* only lists
> > files but not directories. I have used dpkg on merkel's mirror to
> > check for packages shipping /var/run or a subdirectory of /var/run in
> > the deb.

> Great.  Thank you.  How did you do this?  I would like to do the same
> for etch and sid.
[...]

cd /org/ftp.root/debian
zgrep ^Filename: dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz | \
  sed -e 's/^Filename: //' > /tmp/filenames.sarge.stable
for i in `cat /tmp/filenames.sarge.stable` ; do
  if nice -19 dpkg --contents $i |grep -q /var/run ; then
    echo $i 
  fi
done > /tmp/contains_var_run.sarge
for i in `cat /tmp/sargewithrun`  ; do 
  if nice -19 dpkg --contents $i | grep -q /var/run/. ; then
    echo $i 
  fi
done > /tmp/sargewithrun.subdir

Mainly cnp from bash_history, I was too lazy to make a real
shellscript out of it, sorry.
cu andreas
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