If there’s a file installed on your disk for which you’d like to know what package provided it, you can use the equery command like below :

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roadrunner ~ # equery belongs /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/samba in *... ]
net-fs/samba-3.0.37 (/etc/init.d/samba)

equery is part of the gentoolkit package, which provides useful tools to maintain/investigate your gentoo packages.

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roadrunner ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild 
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild in *... ]
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.5 (/usr/bin/revdep-rebuild)

December 3, 2009 at 10:33 am by Stephane Kattoor
Category: Systems
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