file came from which package

[sktsee]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 18:49 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> when i do sudo dpkg -S /etc/samba/smb.conf, i get
> dpkg: /etc/samba/smb.conf not found.  also when i do sudo apt-file
> search /etc/samba/smb.conf, it returns nothing
> 

It belongs to the samba-common package. Some packages create their
configuration files as part of their post-installation process. Grep
around in /var/lib/dpkg/info for clues about which packages handles a
particular conf file.

For instance, grep -l smb.conf /var/lib/dpkg/info/* reveals the
following files that have something to do with smb.conf on my system:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/nautilus-share.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/nautilus-share.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.config
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.templates

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sktsee