[Nix-dev] how to find packages by file?

[Domen Kožar]

https://github.com/Enlambda/nix-channelstatus has working RESTful API to
search by files,
I plan to publish that as a web service in upcoming weeks.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:

> On 17-03-15 01:13pm, Linus Heckemann wrote:
> > On 14/03/17 20:24, Roni Choudhury wrote:
> >  2. Use nix-repl — `nix-repl '<nixpkgs>'` will give you a REPL for the
> > nix language with autocompletion for that sort of thing, which can be
> > very helpful.
>
> Can confirm. Normally I use
> find /nix/store -iname "*library.so"
> to find the package name,
> then I grep nixpkgs for that name
> then I look at the outputs (whether it’s in `lib` or `out`)
> then I grep nixpkgs for the filename to find the attribute name
>
> The naming schemes are pretty similar, it could probably
> be automated fairly well.
>
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