From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 15:57: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F3737B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:57:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBDNuPC50917; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:56:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200112132356.fBDNuPC50917@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master +CONTENTS list? In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Dec 2001 15:41:50 PST." From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:56:25 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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