Hi! On Monday 01 September 2003 22:40, Ben Kennedy wrote: > Hello all, > > How can I determine a) which ebuilds I have currently installed, and b) > which of them provided a given object/file/directory? > > For example... /usr/sbin/sendmail exists on my system. I want to know > which package provided that. In particular, I want to install courier- > mta. So I would like to first figure out who put sendmail there, and > unmerge that package if appropriate. > > In essence, my questions are how to do the gentoo equivalents of 'rpm - > qa' and 'rpm -q --whatprovides somefile'.
First, emerge gentoolkit. This is a "Collection of unofficial administration scripts for Gentoo". The script you need is qpkg. (a) qpkg -I (b) qpkg -f <file> Also you can emerge epm. It is a "rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux". Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
