On Tue, 24 May 2005 22:13:03 -0700 karly wrote: > > Back in February David Corbin posted a question about which ebuild > uuencode is in, and how he could find out in general which ebuild > a particular binary might be located in. > > I was loking for uuencode myself, which is how I found his > unanswered post. I found the answer to his first question, so I > thought I would go ahead and post it. uuencode is in app-arch/sharutil. > > I found this out by googling and stumbling across it on a Debian > page. If someone has a more reliable way to find the answer, that > would be great.
I often solve that problem by going to rpmfind.net, seatrching for the binary name and noting the name of the rpm package. (although I notice that this fails for uuencode ) > > -karl > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
