Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:52:54 -0400 From: "The MadDaemon" <maddaemon@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Ports] How to find where a port is located? Message-ID: <6c1774c50806190752o147caf4hc4155b044136200f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200806161545.m5GFjbYN001373@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <96d454pk73ornom636es6caii1cl8h29dt@4ax.com> <200806161545.m5GFjbYN001373@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote: > > Currently, to find where a software is located under /usr/ports/, I > > rune the "find" command. Is there a database that I could query > > instead so that it gives out the whole path to that the application? > > In addition to the ways that others have suggested, there > is also this one: > > http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/ You can also use the "quicksearch" option: root@darkhorse [~]# cd /usr/ports/ root@darkhorse [/usr/ports]# make quicksearch name=dsniff Port: dsniff-2.3_3 Path: /usr/ports/security/dsniff Info: Various sniffing utilities for penetration testing -- It said "use Linux 2.4 kernel or better" so I installed FreeBSD. Now everything runs better. Why didn't they just tell me to do that to begin with?
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