From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 13:59: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CC737B416 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBDLwOO40500; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:58:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200112132158.fBDLwOO40500@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master +CONTENTS list? In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Dec 2001 13:50:06 PST." From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:58:24 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gary grinned, > "Richard E. Hawkins" writes: > > Is there a master list of all the +CONTENTS around somewhere, that I > > can grep through to find which port(s) are supposed to have a specific > > file? > pkg_which looks up the packages database to tell which package each spec- > ified file came from. yes, but it depends upon the package being installed, doesn't it? I'm concerned about the situation in which, by disaster or otherwise, I need to find which package it *should* belong to so that I can force a reinstallation. hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message