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 :
1 2 | 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.
1 2 3 | 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) |
[...] Gentoo Linux / Portage : How to know which package provided an installed file [...]
Do you know the process of finding what package depends on another? For example x11-apps/ttmkfdir is now masked with xfs, so I was trying to find what package depends on ttmkfdir, and I’m unable to find that. I was assuming the ‘-t’ flag would give it to me, but I’m not finding anything.
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If I understood correctly, you are looking for
Hope this helps !
Stephane