On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:00:06 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in?
Asking here is one way. > 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. It's the latter. > 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. Because the files installed by a package depend on the USE flags and platform, it is not possible to produce a definitive list of what each package installs, unlike with a binary distro. You can search http://packages.debian.org or http://rpmfind.net to see which package includes the file on other distros . That should give you a good idea of where to look. -- Neil Bothwick Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.",
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