Re: File search

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> One use case that I hope can be addressed is TeXlive packages. Trying
>> to figure out which package corresponded to which missing file was a
>> nightmare the last I had to use LaTeX.
>
> The texlive package database is the authoritative source of information.
> The file texlive.tlpdb is included in the texlive-bin package, and we’re
> using it in the importer.  I also added (@ (guix import texlive)
> files-differ?), which compares a texlive package’s output directory with
> the files that the texlive.tlpdb lists for that package.
>
> You can also use it to check what package should provide a certain file.
> I do this all the time to figure out if our existing packages are
> incomplete or if we’re just missing a package.

Oh, I had never tried that.  Is there a command that browses
texlive.tlpdb, or do you just open it or grep it?

Thanks for the tip,
Ludo’.