SUMMARY: (followup) packages and finding information

Dave Wreski (dave@nic.com)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 18:50:40 -0500 (EST)

Hi all. I received many more replies following my initial summary I felt
a follow up was in order.

Special thanks to Jim Harmon <jharmon@telecnnct.com> for providing us with
this additional information, and thanks much to the many who answered..

Briefly, I asked how to find which package a particular binary belongs
to.

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In Solaris 2.6's Man Pages (at least) there is a new part of the
Attributes section of the page, that's a small chart with an element
called "availability".

This displays the package that the app/utility is part of.

ex:

sendmail:

ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:

__________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE| ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
|__________________________________
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_______________|_________________|

in.ftpd: (oddly enough!)

ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:

__________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE| ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
|__________________________________
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_______________|_________________|

and then going back to pkginfo:

> pkginfo | grep SUNWcsu

system SUNWcsu Core Solaris, (Usr)

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