Search for Guix package by provided filename

Search for Guix package by provided filename

[Daniel Hatton]

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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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Kind regards,

Dan Hatton

                 Dr. Daniel C. Hatton

E-mail:         dan.hatton@btinternet.com

SIP:            dan.hatton@sip.linphone.org
Signal:         dch.28


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Re: Search for Guix package by provided filename

[Kristoffer Ström]

> 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.

Re: Search for Guix package by provided filename

[Parnikkapore]

`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