First of all, thanks for your answer. > Hi, > > > How do portage determines where a certain package has to be > > installed (eg, /, > > /usr, /usr/local, /opt or whatever)? > > That's in the Makefile of the package, and in the ebuild. From the > user's viewpoint it's predefined.
If so, how can one change these? ie, doing something similar to passing "prefix=/something" to the configure scripts? How can the user choose where to install some package (if it's possible at all, of course). > > Another question: how can one find out what package a given > > file belongs to? > > Check out qpkg. I believe it is in the gentoolkit package. A quick look at the man page shows that qpkg -f only finds files belonging to INSTALLED packages. To query uninstalled packages the -U flag is used, but -f and -U are incompatible. Any other suggestion? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
