what ebuild provides dig or nslookup

bombcar · Guru Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 453 Location: Wisconsin

I can't seem to find it. I wish there was an emerge -S "command provided" option. :cry:

Gruffi · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject:

fcgreg · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: This one eludes many :-)

You can find it in Portage under the name "bind-tools" (net-dns/bind-tools). It includes dig, nslookup, and host.

Happy Gentoo-ing!
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Gruffi · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

actually i should have posted this code:

bombcar · Guru Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 453 Location: Wisconsin

Thank you! I tried bindutils, but obviously I was off a bit.

jtaylor72 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:01 am Post subject:

ledskof · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 209

If you look really close, you'll see that he used a capital 'S', which is the same as doing:

bombcar · Guru Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 453 Location: Wisconsin

Looks close to what I want, but I'd still like an exact list of each command provided by an ebuild; for example, netatalk provides a bunch of little commands that are hard to find unless you know they came from netatalk.

ledskof · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 209

That's a little extreme don't you think?
Do you just want the executable binaries or every file it installs?
That would quite inflate the size of the portage tree. Imagine all the files just for something like xfree. Even if you only include binaries. It would also create a lot of unncessary portage maintenance everytime packages change their binaries. It would be difficult to write a script to search through the packages to determine that type of thing...

Otherwise, if you emerge the gentoolkit, and if you have the package installed already, you could either do

sevec · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 47

yes.. sometimes i too wished there was a field in the ebuild besides the description for the commands it provides and maybe also the shared libraries.

it might be nice to have but i don't know how usefull it would be.

bombcar · Guru Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 453 Location: Wisconsin

I don't think it would be all that hard; after the "work" directory is used but pre installation of the files, a simple find command would find all the executable.

RPMs provide "--whatprovides" and similar options. I think it would be very useful, at least when I want to run a command, but don't know where it comes from.

Dumb luck saves me most of the time, if I want to run emacs, I can just