Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ----> Invalid db entry:

[David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:40:17 -0600
Dale wrote:

> David Relson wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:52:03 +0100
> > Marc Joliet wrote:
> >
> > ..[snip]..
> >  
> >   
> >> Relevant snip from the manpage:
> >>
> >> depends <local-opts> pkgspec
> >>               This command displays all dependencies matching
> >> pkgspec. <local-opts> is either or both of:
> >>               -a, --all-packages search in all available packages
> >> (slow) -d, --direct search direct dependencies only (default)
> >>               -D, --indirect search indirect dependencies (very
> >> slow) --depth=n Limit depth of indirect dependency tree to n
> >> levels. Setting --depth=0 is the same as not specifing --indirect.
> >>
> >> So "equery depends" expects a package name, not a file name. What
> >> exactly are you trying to do?
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Marc Joliet
> >>     
> >
> > Hello Marc,
> >
> > Right you are, I was using the wrong command.  
> >
> > If I recall, last night I wanted to find which package _provides_ a
> > given file.  Obviously the file in my sample,
> > i.e. /etc/init.d/samba, is from net-fs/samba but the general
> > question remains:  How does one find the package from which a file
> > came?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >   
> 
> equery belongs <file name>
> 
> That help?
> 
> Dale

Indeed it does!

Thanks, Dale.
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