From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E70zs-000076-0n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:21:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M1JVi0028952; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:19:31 GMT Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-08.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M1FwtH026597 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:16:00 GMT Received: (qmail 1494 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2005 01:16:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) (203.59.166.20) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 22 Aug 2005 01:16:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F27926D9 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:16:32 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20040-02 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:16:20 +0800 (WST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F44768B for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:16:20 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4309188B.40901@planet.nl> References: <43091471.2070803@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <4309188B.40901@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:16:08 +0800 Message-Id: <1124673368.26613.11.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain X-Archives-Salt: fb2631f2-9cc8-47c5-ab2c-e92679b7c751 X-Archives-Hash: 1ca2ac4322d66b83ef238569657be554 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 ... BillK On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > 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 ... > > 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) > > :-) > > HTH, > Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list