On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 23:55, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> How do I find what ebuild is responsible for a file on my system?
> 

You can use the qpkg program from the app-portage/gentoolkit package.

qpkg -f /path/to/file

> simple example... I want to find the "owner" of /usr/X11R6/bin/xcmsdb
> 
> With an rpm based distro I'd just run: rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xcmsdb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xcmsdb
> XFree86-4.3-5mdk
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

You can get similar functionality from the app-portage/epm package:

epm -qf /path/to/file

Doug


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