Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:56:25 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master +CONTENTS list? Message-ID: <200112132356.fBDNuPC50917@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Dec 2001 15:41:50 PST." <rq7krqbsch.krq@localhost.localdomain>
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gary gave > dochawk@psu.edu writes: > > yes, but it depends upon the package being installed, doesn't it? I'm > > concerned about the situation in which, by disaster or otherwise, I > > need to find which package it *should* belong to so that I can force a > > reinstallation. > Whoops. I'll try again: > find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist | xargs grep something > I'm not sure this is quite the same thing as greping +CONTENTS, but it > should good enough, usually. ah-hah! that does it. I had thought for some reason that plists only included pre-build files, not what *would* be install. Of course, the port i went to ckeck this on, kde2, has "@comment this plist intentionally left empty" . . . thanks greatly hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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