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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I'm sure this has come up several times but finding the correct search |
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> string is proving to be a problem. |
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> How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in? |
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> For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have |
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> no mkfs.xfs. |
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> I find these in my portage tree: sys-fs/xfsdump and xfsprogs. |
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> Neither sound like they would contain mkfs.xfs. But if they do, how |
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> can I determine that? I see no list of files or the like in their |
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> prospective directories and no commandline flags for esearch that look |
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> like they do that either. |
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> The package database listed on gentoo home pages appears to be laid |
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> out in some unfathomable and non-searchable way. |
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> I see no infomation about how to use it there at all. |
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you can try to use equery on "suspect" packages you find with emerge |
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--search... |
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m. |
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