From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 22:16:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BC537B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43EA43F93 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h3F5GXra001219; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:16:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:16:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Kelly Message-ID: <20030415051633.GG84095@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3E9B5A56.2070609@yahoo-inc.com> <1050368712.69920.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3E9B5D94.4070401@bigfoot.com> <200304142042.03864.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304142042.03864.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to find which package contains file? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:16:42 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 14), David Kelly said: > On Monday 14 April 2003 08:17 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > > >If you have the package and file already installed on your system: > > > > > >pkg_info -W /path/to/file > > > > thanks but what about the situation described abovwe - when I am > > trying to find which package to install when there's some file > > missing? (usually a library but could be something else). > > Something like this (it will take a while so carefully select the RE > you use for grep. "perllocal.pod" in this example): > > % find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist | xargs grep -l perllocal.pod > /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/pkg-plist > /usr/ports/astro/p5-Astro-Sunrise/pkg-plist > /usr/ports/audio/p5-CDDB_get/pkg-plist > /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBIx-XHTML_Table/pkg-plist > /usr/ports/devel/autodia/pkg-plist > [...] Although note that some ports dynamically generate their own plists (the gcc ports, for example), so this will nto work in all cases. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com