* Search for Guix package by provided filename
@ 2025-01-01 17:16 Daniel Hatton
2025-01-01 18:45 ` Kristoffer Ström
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From: Daniel Hatton @ 2025-01-01 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guix help list
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Does there exist a tool for searching out which Guix package provides a
particular executable, or a particular file more generally, please?
(The ones I particularly want to find ATM are the anagram generator
executable an, and the Octave library optim)
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* Re: Search for Guix package by provided filename
2025-01-01 17:16 Daniel Hatton
@ 2025-01-01 18:45 ` Kristoffer Ström
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From: Kristoffer Ström @ 2025-01-01 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Hatton, Guix help list
> Does there exist a tool for searching out which Guix package provides a
> particular executable, or a particular file more generally, please?
As far as i know, unfortunately no.
I would love to have a tool like this, (still don't know where to find
hcitool for example) Sometimes grepping the guix source for the file
works, but it's not very reliable.
This would be a great thing to somehow build into substitute
repositories, since they are probably the only places that know about
what files are actually produced by all package definitions.
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@ 2025-01-02 14:38 ` Parnikkapore
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From: Parnikkapore @ 2025-01-02 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kristoffer, help-guix
`guix locate`[1] exists, but it only works for packages you have somehow downloaded.
[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-locate.html
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