Re: How to identify an lib file

Rob Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 29 September 2002 08:43 am, Jan Ries wrote:
> Hi,
> exists a way to determine from which "package" a specific file does come
> from? In this special case I'm looking for the origin of an file called:
> /lib/libc.so.6
> But I'd like to now it generical, just in case.
> 	jan

like this:
kormoc@kormoc kormoc $ qpkg -f /usr/lib/libc.so.5
sys-libs/lib-compat *

qpkg -f finds what package it belongs to.
Thanks,
Rob Smith
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