Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:55:00 +0100 From: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: 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: <e5e0de3c-7b2a-2f13-f1da-a7fea0c8e539@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20180125154920.GW28547@fc.opsec.eu> 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> <20180125154920.GW28547@fc.opsec.eu>
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On 01/25/18 16:49, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > 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. > Hi, To limit the number of replies just add a '$' character at the end of the query $ pkg provides '/usr/local/bin/perl$' Hope it helps, - rodrigo
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