On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:16:10 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > The other thing that I would quite like to see is some way > to identify the package that generated the update file. Maybe > encoded into the '._cfg..' filename, or logged in a file somewhere. > Sometimes it is not obvious where to look if more information is > needed to decide if an update is necessary.. Or is this information > available somewhere and I just havn't found it???
qpkg and equery are both able to tell you which package provided a file. Use the name without the ._cfg part as that was added by emerge. -- Neil Bothwick Evolution stops when stupidity is no longer fatal!
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