* Paul B. Henson (henson at acm.org) wrote: > > Is there any easy way to determine on an installed system which package > owns a particular file? Reviewing the documentation, I see there is a way > to list out all files owned by a particular package, but I didn't see a way > to query the other side. > > I suppose you could dump out the files owned for each package individually > and try to find the file in question, but that seems inefficient.
If you're talking about OpenSolaris 2008.05, then: pkg search <file> Is what you're after. glagasse at glorfindel:~ % pkg search bash INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE basename file usr/bin/bash pkg:/SUNWbash at 3.2.25-0.86 This searches the *installed* packages. If it returns no output then the file isn't installed. In that case, you want the -r parameter to pkg search: glagasse at glorfindel:~ % pkg search -r bash INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE basename file usr/bin/bash pkg:/SUNWbash at 3.2.25-0.86 basename file usr/bin/bash pkg:/SUNWbash at 3.2.25-0.86 basename file usr/bin/bash pkg:/SUNWbash at 3.2.25-0.75 basename file usr/bin/bash pkg:/SUNWbash at 3.2.25-0.75 basename file usr/bin/bash pkg:/SUNWbash at 3.2.25-0.79 This queries the remote repository. Cheers, Glenn
