Bug 47149 – Gentoo needs a clean way of asking "which package installed file X"

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tony Kay 2004-04-07 15:21:24 UTC]

On more than one occasion I have needed to know which package installed a 
specific file on my system (most recently, I needed this while debugging an 
ebuild). Doing it with grep against the /var/db/*/*/CONTENTS files works, but is
not very pretty. As a result, I wrote a Perl script to clean up the process.

Perhaps this script (or a Python equivalent addition to emerge) could be added.

[Comment 1 Tony Kay 2004-04-07 15:27:39 UTC]

Created attachment 28858 [details]
Perl command to query the package that installed a file on the filesystem

This perl script uses Getopt::Long and Pod::Usage. It is self-documenting (run
it with no arguments).

[Comment 2 Peter Howell 2004-04-07 16:13:12 UTC]

emerge gentoolkit

qpkg -f <file that you want to know the origin of>

[Comment 3 Tony Kay 2004-04-07 16:16:48 UTC]

Ah, well then change that to: it would be nice if that was documented on the EBuild HOWTO page or something.

[Comment 4 Tony Kay 2004-04-07 16:23:46 UTC]

Proper command is in gentoolkit