Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm sure this has come up several times but finding the correct search
string is proving to be a problem.
How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in?
For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have
no mkfs.xfs.
I find these in my portage tree: sys-fs/xfsdump and xfsprogs.
Neither sound like they would contain mkfs.xfs. But if they do, how
can I determine that? I see no list of files or the like in their
prospective directories and no commandline flags for esearch that look
like they do that either.
The package database listed on gentoo home pages appears to be laid
out in some unfathomable and non-searchable way.
I see no infomation about how to use it there at all.
you can try to use equery on "suspect" packages you find with emerge
--search...
m.
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