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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:49:20 +0100
From:      Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r459945 - in head/ports-mgmt: . pkg-provides pkg-provides/files
Message-ID:  <20180125154920.GW28547@fc.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <20180125154056.xpg6dks2hps673j2@ogg.in.absolight.net>
References:  <201801251445.w0PEj4db093706@repo.freebsd.org> <20180125151224.pwbqbyryxih76vb5@ogg.in.absolight.net> <0099f576-be3a-73d2-7dfe-1b72638a5743@FreeBSD.org> <2649e26b-11ff-7375-d649-e37fffed9567@FreeBSD.org> <20180125154056.xpg6dks2hps673j2@ogg.in.absolight.net>

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Hi!

> > > pkg provides is a you provides like, it tells you about packages you
> > > want to install.
> 
> I have no idea what yum provides does. How can it know which packages I want to
> install? 

If you give it a path, it tells you which package has a file for that
path. That way, if you ask:

pkg provides /usr/local/bin/perl

it returns a list of packages with that file/path.

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