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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r459945 - in head/ports-mgmt: . pkg-provides
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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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