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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gei6Z-0008WM-1A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:07:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9V15pXp009998; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:05:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9V131GJ004249 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:03:17 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B2365258 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:34:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.919 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.919 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.680, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id geGOTB7R62cN for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:34:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464066524B for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gegdq-0006SE-Im for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:34:06 +0100 Received: from lien-residence-service-gestion.sur-inter.net ([217.174.211.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:34:06 +0100 Received: from lanjelot by lien-residence-service-gestion.sur-inter.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:34:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: lanjelot Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:33:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5bc4c4570610251458i16cc91dcm7e25c436e7792ed6@mail.gmail.com> <20061025221429.GA6096@empyrean> <5bc4c4570610251839l42c49d3bl3d090dc4b4369e31@mail.gmail.com> <45465CBF.2010709@badapple.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lien-residence-service-gestion.sur-inter.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <45465CBF.2010709@badapple.net> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b20a7611-9a8e-4e54-a73e-a7f7ca3ba4a7 X-Archives-Hash: 84ef2af21b3d97511fd0c3b402862ec4 i'm amazed by how reactive you people were, eix -S was actually what i was looking for for so long. thx heaps! kashani wrote: > lanjelot wrote: >> but what if isn't merged yet ? >> >> expl: >> how do i find out what package i need to emerge so i can use nslookup. >> >> it's something i've been wondering for a while and i just thought it >> could fit in this thread even though the poster got the answer to his >> question. >> >> thanks all > > It's not easy under any system. My favorite was trying to figure out how > to get uuencode stuff under Redhat. It's the sharutils package in case > you were wondering. > > Google and the Gentoo forums are your friends when trying to find what > installs what though most of it fairly straightforward. Gentoo does have > some unique issues because the Gentoo "system" is fairly stripped down > so things like dig, telnet, or ftp are missing until you add them. > That's much of the appeal to many people. > > emerge bind-tools to get nslookup, dig, host, etc. > > kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list