[gentoo-user] Which ebuild contains sgml2html command ?

Peter Ruskin wrote:
> peter@peter ~ $ qpkg -f `which sgml2html`
> app-text/sgmltools-lite *

Thanks Peter,

it would be fine to have special search engine on gentoo.org
for this purpose

noro


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On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:37:24 +0100
Norbert Kamenicky <noro.DeleteThis@xmedia.sk> wrote:

> Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > peter@peter ~ $ qpkg -f `which sgml2html`
> > app-text/sgmltools-lite *
>
> Thanks Peter,
>
> it would be fine to have special search engine on gentoo.org
> for this purpose
>
> noro

what would it search?

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Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:37:24 +0100
> Norbert Kamenicky <noro DeleteThis @xmedia.sk> wrote:
>
>
>>Peter Ruskin wrote:
>>
>>>peter@peter ~ $ qpkg -f `which sgml2html`
>>>app-text/sgmltools-lite *
>>
>>Thanks Peter,
>>
>>it would be fine to have special search engine on gentoo.org
>>for this purpose
>>
>>noro
>
>
> what would it search?
>

ebuild of course
i.e. if u know the name of desired command (like xyz), doesn't have it
installed on system and need to know which ebuild u have to emerge ...
sometimes the same command can be installed via two different ebuilds,
but guessing their names is not easy every times.

noro

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Norbert Kamenicky wrote:

>Nick Rout wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:37:24 +0100
>>Norbert Kamenicky <noro.TakeThisOut@xmedia.sk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Peter Ruskin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>peter@peter ~ $ qpkg -f `which sgml2html`
>>>>app-text/sgmltools-lite *
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Thanks Peter,
>>>
>>>it would be fine to have special search engine on gentoo.org
>>>for this purpose
>>>
>>>noro
>>>
>>>
>>what would it search?
>>
>>
>>
>
>ebuild of course
>i.e. if u know the name of desired command (like xyz), doesn't have it
>installed on system and need to know which ebuild u have to emerge ...
>sometimes the same command can be installed via two different ebuilds,
>but guessing their names is not easy every times.
>
>noro
>
>
>
Actually, names of files aren't contained in the ebuilds - they're
created by the compilation process. Portage keeps track of what files
are created during the merge for uninstallation later, but it doesn't
know beforehand what the files will be. The only way to find out what
files will be installed by a given package is to open up its source
tarball(s) and look in the makefiles for 'ld' or 'libtool' calls.
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Ryan Tandy wrote:

> Actually, names of files aren't contained in the ebuilds - they're
> created by the compilation process. Portage keeps track of what files
> are created during the merge for uninstallation later, but it doesn't
> know beforehand what the files will be. The only way to find out what
> files will be installed by a given package is to open up its source
> tarball(s) and look in the makefiles for 'ld' or 'libtool' calls.


yes, I know, but it means to download lot of tarballs, which is
a bit complicated ... therefore I wish to have database on gentoo.org

IMHO names of files shouldn't be in ebuilds ...
it would be wasting lot of space, bandwidth etc. just for very sporadic
usage (btw. I needed it first time, while using gentoo for >3 years)

noro
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On 12/3/05, Norbert Kamenicky <noro RemoveThis @xmedia.sk> wrote:
> yes, I know, but it means to download lot of tarballs, which is
> a bit complicated ... therefore I wish to have database on gentoo.org
>

This issue has been discussed on this list before many times: because
ebuilds are compiled from source, there is no way to predict what the
contents of the package will be, due to differening USE flags, etc, so
building a comprehensive database would be impossible.

If I am looking for a specfiic file or command, I first try to search
Debian's package database:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

Usually, I can find what I am looking for, and the Debian package name
is similar or identical to the Gentoo ebuild.


Matt

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