Bug 94124 – should equery look if file exists when using the belong option

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Jonas Geiregat 2005-05-26 16:05:05 UTC]

I'm just wondering suppose I want to know which package the groups command comes
from. I assume without really checking that the groups file is located in
/sbin/groups, equery belongs /sbin/groups.
I think when using fullpath names equery should first check if the file exists
or not this would save alot of execution time when the file you specified on the
command line can't be located on your system.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2005-05-26 16:07:53 UTC]

What if I deleted an important file but didn't know what package it belonged to? 
How would I figure out what package to reinstall to duplicate the file if not 
for "equery belongs <missing_file>" ?

[Comment 2 Jonas Geiregat 2005-05-26 16:29:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What if I deleted an important file but didn't know what package it belonged to? 
> How would I figure out what package to reinstall to duplicate the file if not 
> for "equery belongs <missing_file>" ?

In that case you have several options
- present the user with a prompt asking him if he really wants to search a file
that doesn't exists ?
- add an extra option -y to disable this prompt "yes to all"

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-05-26 19:31:21 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94131 ***

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-05-26 19:31:38 UTC]

oops, wrong field

[Comment 5 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2005-10-12 23:37:10 UTC]

I am not going to do this for the reasons listed in comment #1