Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:45:40 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008733540.e572fc@mired.org> To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: master +CONTENTS list? Message-ID: <15385.30180.381187.488346@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <92598227@toto.iv>
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dochawk@psu.edu types: > 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" . . . I believe it. Doesn't kde2 may well just install a bunch of other things? One thing to watch for is that sometimes ports create plists "on the fly". You can catch a lot of that with: find /usr/ports -name '*plist*' | xargs grep name <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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