[gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello.

 From time to time, I'm looking for a *not* installed package, which
might provide a certain file. Say, I'd like to know, which packages
could provide "/etc/foo/bar", how would I do that? Are there any sites
out there, which provide a "database", which "connect" installed file
to package? Sort of like a compilation of /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Trevor Rhodes]

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Hello,

>  From time to time, I'm looking for a *not* installed package, which
> might provide a certain file. Say, I'd like to know, which packages
> could provide "/etc/foo/bar", how would I do that? Are there any sites
> out there, which provide a "database", which "connect" installed file
> to package? Sort of like a compilation of /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS?

I would suggest http://rpm.pbone.net

I know we don't use rpms, but it will give you the name you are after.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 22 May 2006 08:40:01 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

>  From time to time, I'm looking for a *not* installed package, which
> might provide a certain file. Say, I'd like to know, which packages
> could provide "/etc/foo/bar", how would I do that? Are there any sites
> out there, which provide a "database", which "connect" installed file
> to package? Sort of like a compilation of /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS?

http://packages.debian.org will give a clue.

AFAIK there's no database of Gentoo packages such as you ask for. Such a
database would be inaccurate, because package contents are USE flag
dependent, so anyone charitable enough to set one up would probably spend
most of their time fielding questions about incorrect data :(


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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Alexander Skwar]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

> AFAIK there's no database of Gentoo packages such as you ask for. Such a
> database would be inaccurate, because package contents are USE flag
> dependent, so anyone charitable enough to set one up would probably spend
> most of their time fielding questions about incorrect data :(

Nah, not necessarily. For every listed file, it would be required
to show to which package(s) it belongs and also, how those packages
were built (ie. with which USE flags). So, not only the listing
of all the CONTENT files would be of interest, but also the keyword
(ie. x86, amd64, ...) and the associated USE flags.

BTW: How can I find out, with which *relevant* USE flags a package
has been built? Eg. gnome-base/gnome. In /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1,
I find a "USE" file. But it contains *WAY* too many flags:

alexander@blatt /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 $ cat USE
x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acpi alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid async avi bash-completion bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash cairo caps cardbus ccache cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cle266 cli crypt css curlwrappers dbus devmap dillo divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdread 
emoticon esd exif fam fbcon fbdev firefox fping freetype gdbm gif gnokii gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hpn icc id3 idn imap imlib imlib2 insecure-drivers insecure-savers isdnlog javascript jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libedit libwww linuxthreads-tls logrotate lynxkeymap mad madwifi maildir matroska 
mbox mmx mmxext mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer multicall ncurses netboot network new-login nfs nis nls no-old-linux no-suexec noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsf nobsh nocd nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nodrm nogg nogulm nojsch nojython nolog4j nomac nooro nopri norhino noxalan 
noxerces nozaptel nptl nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openssh pam_console pam_timestamp passfile password patented pccts pcmcia pcre perl perlsuid pic player png pnp pppd qt quicktime rar readline real recode reflection reiserfs sdl sendfile sensord session sftp sms spell spf spl sse sse2 ssl 
startup-notification stream subp subtitles suid symlink sysfs syslog tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev underscores unichrome unicode unsafe usb utf8 uudeview vim vim-pager vlm vorbis wifi win32codecs wma123 x11vnc xinetd xml xmms xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid 
xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_-synaptics kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via


I'd rather only see the relevant flags; ie. those flags, which
are shown when I do a "emerge -v", like so:

alexander@blatt /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 $ emerge -vpt gnome

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1  USE="-accessibility cdr -dvdr hal" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

So, I would like to see

	-accessibility cdr -dvdr hal

How to do that?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 22 May 2006 12:28:22 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> > AFAIK there's no database of Gentoo packages such as you ask for.
> > Such a database would be inaccurate, because package contents are USE
> > flag dependent, so anyone charitable enough to set one up would
> > probably spend most of their time fielding questions about incorrect
> > data :(
> 
> Nah, not necessarily. For every listed file, it would be required
> to show to which package(s) it belongs and also, how those packages
> were built (ie. with which USE flags). So, not only the listing
> of all the CONTENT files would be of interest, but also the keyword
> (ie. x86, amd64, ...) and the associated USE flags.

How many permutations would there be. Packages lke mplayer and php use
dozens of USE flags, compiling with every combination would a day
and forever (which is longer than forever and a day).

> BTW: How can I find out, with which *relevant* USE flags a package
> has been built? Eg. gnome-base/gnome.
> In /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1, I find a "USE" file. But it
> contains *WAY* too many flags:

genlop -i pkgname


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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Alexander Skwar]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006 12:28:22 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
>> > AFAIK there's no database of Gentoo packages such as you ask for.
>> > Such a database would be inaccurate, because package contents are USE
>> > flag dependent, so anyone charitable enough to set one up would
>> > probably spend most of their time fielding questions about incorrect
>> > data :(
>> 
>> Nah, not necessarily. For every listed file, it would be required
>> to show to which package(s) it belongs and also, how those packages
>> were built (ie. with which USE flags). So, not only the listing
>> of all the CONTENT files would be of interest, but also the keyword
>> (ie. x86, amd64, ...) and the associated USE flags.
> 
> How many permutations would there be.

"Some" :)

> Packages lke mplayer and php use
> dozens of USE flags, compiling with every combination would a day
> and forever (which is longer than forever and a day).

Well, that's necessarily a community effort. For the very reason
that you just mentioned, it's not realistically, that just one
person provides a list.

But if "every" person would contribute, a "complete" database
would be compiled, over time.

>> BTW: How can I find out, with which *relevant* USE flags a package
>> has been built? Eg. gnome-base/gnome.
>> In /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1, I find a "USE" file. But it
>> contains *WAY* too many flags:
> 
> genlop -i pkgname

Thanks.


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[OT] Was: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Ryan Tandy]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> alexander@blatt /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 $ cat USE
> x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acpi alsa amd apache2 apm arts 
> artswrappersuid async avi bash-completion bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts 
> bluetooth bootsplash cairo caps cardbus ccache cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia 
> cdr cdrom cle266 cli crypt css curlwrappers dbus devmap dillo divx4linux 
> dlloader dri dvd dvdread emoticon esd exif fam fbcon fbdev firefox fping 
> freetype gdbm gif gnokii gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hpn icc id3 idn 
> imap imlib imlib2 insecure-drivers insecure-savers isdnlog javascript 
> jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libedit libwww linuxthreads-tls logrotate 
> lynxkeymap mad madwifi maildir matroska mbox mmx mmxext mozilla moznoirc 
> mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer multicall ncurses netboot network 
> new-login nfs nis nls no-old-linux no-suexec noantlr nobcel nobeanutils 
> nobsf nobsh nocd nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nodrm nogg nogulm nojsch 
> nojython nolog4j nomac nooro nopri norhino noxalan noxerces nozaptel 
> nptl nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openssh pam_console pam_timestamp 
> passfile password patented pccts pcmcia pcre perl perlsuid pic player 
> png pnp pppd qt quicktime rar readline real recode reflection reiserfs 
> sdl sendfile sensord session sftp sms spell spf spl sse sse2 ssl 
> startup-notification stream subp subtitles suid symlink sysfs syslog 
> tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev 
> underscores unichrome unicode unsafe usb utf8 uudeview vim vim-pager vlm 
> vorbis wifi win32codecs wma123 x11vnc xinetd xml xmms xorg xpm xprint 
> xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev 
> input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_-synaptics 
> kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa 
> video_cards_vga video_cards_via

Nothing to do with the original topic, BUT...

I'd be very interested to know how a flag called GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE 
gets into one's USE ;)  I'm assuming you didn't put it there yourself!
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Re: [OT] Was: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Rasmus Andersen]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Nothing to do with the original topic, BUT...
> 
> I'd be very interested to know how a flag called GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE 
> gets into one's USE ;)  I'm assuming you didn't put it there yourself!

Thats only used by netcat, iirc, and enables the running of commands
from netcat. I guess it could be useful for testing but it is rightly
named something hair-raising :)

Cheers,
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Re: [OT] Was: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Alexander Skwar]

Ryan Tandy wrote:

> I'd be very interested to know how a flag called GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE 
> gets into one's USE ;)  I'm assuming you didn't put it there yourself!

Yes, I did put it there. It's a flag used by netcat.

But I agree that it doesn't belong into the global USE flags, as
it's just a local one. I should move it from make.conf to package.use.

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Re: [OT] Was: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Ryan Tandy]

Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
>> Nothing to do with the original topic, BUT...
>>
>> I'd be very interested to know how a flag called GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE 
>> gets into one's USE ;)  I'm assuming you didn't put it there yourself!
> 
> Thats only used by netcat, iirc, and enables the running of commands
> from netcat. I guess it could be useful for testing but it is rightly
> named something hair-raising :)
> 
> Cheers,
>   Rasmus

I see.  Thanks for the clarification.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Daniel Vrcic]

* Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> [06-05-22 16:46]:
> Hello.
> From time to time, I'm looking for a *not* installed package, which
> might provide a certain file. Say, I'd like to know, which packages
> could provide "/etc/foo/bar", how would I do that? Are there any sites
> out there, which provide a "database", which "connect" installed file to
> package? Sort of like a compilation of /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS?

http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/pfs/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Daniel,
on Friday, 2006-05-26 at 19:54:11, you wrote:
> http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/pfs/

Oh, that's two streets away from here :) Looks like a project I'd want
to participate in...

cheers!
	Matthias

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