On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:52:03 +0100 Marc Joliet wrote: ..[snip].. > Relevant snip from the manpage: > > depends <local-opts> pkgspec > This command displays all dependencies matching pkgspec. > <local-opts> is either or both of: > -a, --all-packages search in all available packages > (slow) -d, --direct search direct dependencies only (default) > -D, --indirect search indirect dependencies (very slow) > --depth=n Limit depth of indirect dependency tree to n > levels. Setting --depth=0 is the same as not specifing --indirect. > > So "equery depends" expects a package name, not a file name. What > exactly are you trying to do? > > -- > Marc Joliet
Hello Marc, Right you are, I was using the wrong command. If I recall, last night I wanted to find which package _provides_ a given file. Obviously the file in my sample, i.e. /etc/init.d/samba, is from net-fs/samba but the general question remains: How does one find the package from which a file came? Regards, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
