On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 00:27, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply... > > What about finding files that are not yet installed? For example, if I'm > looking for what package (ebuild) would provide a file called "xrdb". > > In Mandrake this is simple: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmf xrdb > XFree86:/usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb
Unfortunately, I don't know of anything similar for gentoo. You can use the emerge -s and -S options to search for matching package names and descriptions, but there's nothing to locate which package installs a particular file. Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
