Hi all, First a quick introduction, since this is my first message to the list. I am a CS grad student at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA, and I also do IT work for JMU's art department. I've been using arch for around 2.5 years now. Anyway, I've written a script that takes advantage of the [repo].files.tar.gz filelists that are now available to discover which package provides a particular file, when that package is not installed on the user's machine. It is similar to debian's apt-file, if you are familiar with that. I would appreciate any comments on the script, with an eye toward possible inclusion in Allan's pacman-contrib community package. The script uses the mirrors defined in the user's /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and downloads the filelists for the repos enabled in /etc/pacman.conf. It is available from http://threadstates.com/downloads/pac-file. The only major issue I can see is in the handling of non-standard repos, including local ones. The repo names are obtained from pacman.conf's "[repo]" lines, and the name of the repo is substituted for $repo in the mirror url from the mirrorlist. If a local repo (for example) is defined in pacman.conf as "[local]", on a 'sync' operation, pac-file will attempt to download local.files.tar.gz from every mirror enabled in the mirrorlist. This will not cause the script to fail (it will report that the file is unavailable from any mirror and continue on), but it will waste time. I am hesitant to limit the possible repos to the official ones because there might be third party repos that provides filelists. Suggestions? Thanks, Pete