Package for a File

The commands presented below attempt to find an installed package which is responsible for merging the desired file. etcat and qpkg are superceded by equery as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.

• Global search in all installed package: equery belongs FILE
• Limited search in installed package: equery belongs -c CATEGORY FILE
• Search for first match: equery belongs -e FILE

NOTE: For systems with <portage-2.0.50 and <gentoolkit-0.2 use: etcat belongs FILE [CATEGORY] (specifying CATEGORY will limit and, therefore, speed up the search.)