Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

2005-10-28 Thread b.n.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
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.

[gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

2005-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
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: