Re: [gentoo-dev] portage functionality

[Mikael Hallendal]

lör 2002-01-12 klockan 20.35 skrev Aron Griffis:
> I've not even created an ebuild for this, but you can get an rpm partial
> workalike at
>
>     http://www.speakeasy.org/~yde/epm
>
> It supports most of the querying functions of rpm, but works with the
> Portage database.

I think it's time to start merging all package-helpers in someway.
Currently there are lots of them out there.

* epm
* gentool
* qpkg
* pkgfind

(and possibly more).

Shouldn't we try to make one tool that handles what all these can do?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal
 
> Aron
>
> Jared H. Hudson wrote:	[Fri Jan 11 2002, 04:32:46PM EST]
> > Is there any way to determine what package file X belongs to?
> > For example, under rpm's you can type rpm -qf <path to file>/file and it
> > will report what package it belongs to. Also what about listing all
> > files that belong to a package, for example rpm -ql <package name>
> >
> > If this support is not built in, is there plans to include these
> > functions, and if so is anyone working on it? I'd be happy to start
> > programming this functionality into emerge or ebuild, if someone guides
> > me how they would like it to work, assuming thought to this has been
> > given.
> >
> > -Jared H.
> >
> >
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Mikael Hallendal
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