Hi, $ qfile -V portage-utils-0.1.29: compiled on Nov 3 2008 $Id: qfile.c,v 1.45 2007/05/24 14:47:18 solar Exp $ I don't understand the output's difference between the two last commands, any idea ? thanks. $ cd /usr/bin/ $ qfile -o /usr/bin/* | grep python /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python-config $ qfile -o * | grep python python2 python-config Reproducible: Always $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/distpack/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/distpack/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/gentrees/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/gentrees/overlay-perso" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imlib isdnlog java jpeg libnotify logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Compare this: % qfile python ==> list all installed files named "python" (no matter what their path is). And you have some, although /usr/bin/python may not be one of them. With that: % qfile python2 python-config ==> list all installed files or dirs named "python2" or "python-config". And you have none, nowhere. With "-o", qfile just does the opposite. It lists arguments for which no installed file was found, hence "python2" and "python-config", but not "python". As for searching (orphan) files in "/usr/bin", only your first command is correct. Their has to be a "/" in the argument so that it's recognized and used as a full file path, not just a file name. See the man page, the difference between the "qfile /bin/bash" and "qfile bash" examples. Btw, this would have worked too: % cd /usr/bin % qfile -o ./* | grep python /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python-config
Sorry for the delay, thank you for the explanation.
