From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 17 06:25:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00971 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa2-01.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00951 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00593; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807171324.GAA00593@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: sue@welearn.com.au CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980717172059.30831@welearn.com.au> (message from Sue Blake on Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:20:59 +1000) Subject: Re: little package mysteries Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look at 'man pkg_create' and 'man pkg_add'. I just noticed that 'man pkg_add' on -current will close an xterm. If this happens, do it on a console. 'man pkg_add' has a fair description of the process, under technical details. Find a pkg in /var/db/pkg that has a +CONTENTS file. I just did a 'ls /var/db/pkg/* and found a few that had a +REQUIRED_BY file. The +REQUIRED_BY file lists packages that depend on this one. The +CONTENTS file will have entries that list packages that this one depends on. See '@pkgdep pkgname' in 'man pkg_create'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message