From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 14:50:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5551A37B41B for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3974BE5E; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10754; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:50:11 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBDMn9U33833; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master +CONTENTS list? References: <200112132158.fBDLwOO40500@fac13.ds.psu.edu> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 13 Dec 2001 14:49:08 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200112132158.fBDLwOO40500@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 dochawk@psu.edu writes: > 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. Oh. How about grep something /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS /dev/null That seems too simple. Maybe I'm missing something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message