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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:08 AM

I've been using Gentooo for about a month now and am really, really
impressed. I just have a couple of questions, things that maybe I've
missed.

1. Where can I find the files with the package descs in them? The reason
I ask, I'm sure it must be faster to search them using the find command
than the the emerge -S option, which seems to take about 10 minutes, and
also it'd be handty to be able to look at the desc of a package when
deciding whether or not to emerge it.

2. Is there an easy wway either to get a list of files in a package, or
to find out which package a file belongs to? This was a nice piece of
functionality in Slackware where, if you were wanting to know which
package foobar.txt belonged to, you could just issue the command:
grep 'foobar.txt' /var/log/packages/*

And assuming you'd installed the relevant package using pkgtool or
installpkg you would immediately find out which package it was in, because
each package had it's own file containing a list of files and a
description of the package.

Thanks in advance.

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#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

Toby Fisher wrote:
> 1. Where can I find the files with the package descs in them? The reason
> I ask, I'm sure it must be faster to search them using the find command
> than the the emerge -S option, which seems to take about 10 minutes, and
> also it'd be handty to be able to look at the desc of a package when
> deciding whether or not to emerge it.

they are stored in the ebuilds directly. e.g., to get the description of
the package gentoolkit, you can use
$ cat /usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.1.30.ebuild \
| grep DESCRIPTION

> 2. Is there an easy wway either to get a list of files in a package, or
> to find out which package a file belongs to? This was a nice piece of
> functionality in Slackware where, if you were wanting to know which
> package foobar.txt belonged to, you could just issue the command:
> grep 'foobar.txt' /var/log/packages/*
>
> And assuming you'd installed the relevant package using pkgtool or
> installpkg you would immediately find out which package it was in,
> because
> each package had it's own file containing a list of files and a
> description of the package.

yes. first install gentoolkit, if you haven't already
$ emerge gentoolkit

you can use 'etcat -b path-to-file/filename' or 'qpkg -f
path-to-file/filename' then to find out to which package file filename
belongs.

'qpkg -l foo' gives you a list of files in package foo. use 'etcat' and
'qpkg --help' to find out more options.

Regards, Dennis

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