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From: Leo Lipelis <aeoo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] general questions and thoughts on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:28:26
Message-Id: 20020128162826.GA2639@chiba.3jane.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] general questions and thoughts on Gentoo by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:
3 >
4 > > There are a few utilities which seem to be lacking, but which it
5 > > would appear to be trivial to add. Something like RPM's "rpm -qf
6 > > <file>" facility to find out which package "owns" a particular file
7 > > would be useful. This information is in the /var/db/pkg hierarchy,
8 > > so some kind of 'find&grep' method is all that's needed.
9 >
10 > Look at the app-admin/gentool package, it provides qpkg which should do
11 > exactly that (among others)
12
13 Just a small correction: it should be app-admin/gentoolkit.
14
15 --Leo