Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:59:37 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: determining what's in the base system Message-ID: <20080415235937.GB79279@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <200804160131.23711.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <20080415231450.GF78906@demeter.hydra> <200804160131.23711.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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--/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:31:23AM +0200, Mel wrote: > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:14:50 Chad Perrin wrote: >=20 > > Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at > > least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity softwa= re > > installed, and have both installed and uninstalled a lot of software ov= er > > that time. Now imagine that you want to know whether a given utility w= as > > something that came with the base system or was installed by some port = or > > package later on. What's the easiest way to do that (preferably without > > installing the FreeBSD base system on a computer and checking whether t= he > > utility is present)? >=20 >=20 > If you didn't change LOCALBASE/PREFIX during installation, anything=20 > below /usr/local belongs to ports. Only exception would be kernel modules= =20 > that need to be loaded before /usr is mounted (like graphic card drivers). >=20 > See hier(7). I definitely should have thought of that. Thanks for the wake-up call. >=20 > Also, grep -v '^@' /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS lists all files installed by p= orts. That's more the sort of answer I was expecting, but seems less easily employed than just using `which` to determine whether something's located under /usr/local. --=20 CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: "A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends." --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgFQWkACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVY8gCg4vsc4jdcuNTgp+9FvzjWkAcu /QkAoKuhQNA6FS49JhZkkmRJNtHTdd+a =gnzR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4--
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