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Date:      1 May 2003 18:05:24 -0000
From:      tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas Seck)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file2port search
Message-ID:  <20030501180524.87093.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030501123016.GA500@k7.mavetju>

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* Edwin Groothuis (edwin@mavetju.org):

> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
>> i was wondering whether there is a more convienient way to resolve a
>> file<->port search, than doing something like this
>> 
>> find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist -print0 | xargs -0 grep <file>
> 
> "grep <file> /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS" would work for all installed ports.
> Don't know if such a beast for all uninstalled ports should work
> too, but compiling a small database for it (dbm) would be a better
> solution than grepping for it.
> 
> But yeah, pkg_which or pkg_search should be nice to have by default.

pkg_info -W /path/to/file

exists.

     --Thomas



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