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From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To: "sahil@tandon.net" <sahil@tandon.net>
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Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: checking against plist
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote:
> Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>       Once a port is installed, is there any of using the plist (or
>> aother mechanism) to check whether the files ar still there?
>> (After, say, a system crash.)
>
> You are missing a few words up there, so hard to understand your exact
> problem/question.  You can simply list the contents of the plist and check
> whether those files still exist following a crash.
>
> --
> Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>

pkg_info -g (at least that's what it should be IMHO)?

If this doesn't exist, let me know and I'll see about adding that
feature to pkg_info...

-Garrett