Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rennie deGraaf schreef:
>> What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
>> file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
>> example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package
>> provides it. Under Fedora, I'd use "yum provides foobar"; what command
>> should I use under Gentoo?
>>
>> Something like "esearch foobar" searches package titles, not contents.
>> So, if I was searching for "vi", I'd get all sorts of stuff that has
>> nothing to do with the editor "vi", but happens to have the substring
>> "vi" in its name. And if I was searching for "libfoobar.so", then I
>> might not find any matches, since that file might be in a package called
>> "foobar". In other words, "esearch foobar" doesn't do what I want.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rennie
>
>
> equery belongs equery
> [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ]
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 (/usr/bin/equery)
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5
> (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5/equery)
This is new to me... thanks Holly
"W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other
> tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages.
> I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the
> system. I usually end up googling ...
One piece of man page may indicate otherwise:
list <local-opts> pkgspec
This command lists packages matching pkgspec in a user-specified
combination of installed packages, packages which are not
installed, the portage tree, and the portage overlay tree.
<local-opts> must include not include only -I; if -I is used, -p
and/or -o must be also. By default, only installed packages are
searched. -o searches only the overlay tree [and possibly
installed packages], not the main portage tree.
-i, --installed search installed packages (default)
-I, --exclude-installed do not search installed packages
-p, --portage-tree also search in portage tree (/usr/portage)
-o, --overlay-tree also search in overlay tree
(/usr/local/portage)
However, I couldn't piece together what `pkgspec' might mean.
Can anyone here show some example commands using above with pkgspec
explained a bit more?
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