Search for filenames

[Marcus]

I am looking for a way to find out which package contains a specific filename:

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equo query belongs /usr/sbin/ntpdate

works, but I need to know the path to the binary, as

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equo query belongs ntpdate

does not seem to work.

I know e-file, too. But it does not seem to have the ability to search in overlays.

Greets
Marcus

[Fitzcarraldo]

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fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ whereis ntpdate
ntpdate: /usr/sbin/ntpdate /usr/man/man8/ntpdate.8.bz2 /usr/share/man/man8/ntpdate.8.bz2
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $

The whereis command will find you the path to the binary.

[Marcus]

I meant packages that are actually not installed.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Entropy packages are bz2 tarballs aren't they? So you could use the locate command:

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locate ntpdate | grep bz2

To use the locate command you need to have the package mlocate installed and its hash file updated with the list of files currently on your machine:

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equo install mlocate
updatedb

Thus, even if the package is not installed but only the tarball downloaded, you'd find out where the tarball is.

[Marcus]

I guess it's still not really clear.

For example, I want to install nslookup, but don't know which package it provides. How can I figure out, which package (that is not installed, yet) contains the binary, without knowing the full path to it (as equo query belongs only seems to handle full path)

Greets
Marcus

[Fitzcarraldo]

To find out the name of the package Y which contains the not-installed program X, you can use the Portage File List, and you ought to install the package app-portage/pfl to help them keep the on-line list up to date.

Taking your example of nslookup, http://www.portagefilelist.de/site/quer ... ges=yes&do tells me that nslookup is part of the package net-dns/bind-tools.

[Stupot]

Wow. That is actually pretty nifty. I'll be making a note of this thread.