From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 12 11: 4:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8503A14D1B for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04625; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37DBDE7B.A8B74B8A@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:10:19 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pack management References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harry Putnam wrote: > > Having seen several mentions on this list of FreeBSD package > managment being better than rpm. I'm looking for the diagnostic type > commands that will reveal the state of the system or a particular > package. > > Or a way to trace the files installed when a package is installed, > extract individual original files from packages. Or find which > package holds a particular file. > > Hopefully pkg_info, pkg_add, pkg_delete isn't all of it. There is a pkg_version program in the ports collection, and /var/db/pkg also has the info you're looking for. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message