Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:10:19 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pack management Message-ID: <37DBDE7B.A8B74B8A@gorean.org> References: <m37llwk413.fsf@satellite.local.lan>
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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
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