Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:23:06 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports? Message-ID: <20101121032306.GB48679@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20101121012336.GM13998@comcast.net> References: <20101121012336.GM13998@comcast.net>
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On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 17:23:37 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
>I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems
>like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name
>on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed.
>
>I know that I can use "portsdb -r" to find all the ports that depend on
>a given port, whether they're installed or not. Is there a similar way
>to determine if an uninstalled port installs a file with a given name?
As someone kindly reminded me, "find" and "grep" are my friends:
$ cd /usr/ports
$ find . -name "pkg-plist" -exec grep -H "bin/progname" {} \;
$ find . -name Makefile -exec grep -H "bin/progname" {} \;
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