[gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

[gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

[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:  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.  

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

[Neil Bothwick]

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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.


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Neil Bothwick

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

[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 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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