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Subject: Re: svn commit: r459945 - in head/ports-mgmt: . pkg-provides
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To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
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From: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>
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On 01/25/18 16:40, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 04:15:49PM +0100, Rodrigo Osorio wrote:
>> s/you/yum/
>>
>>
>> On 01/25/18 16:14, Rodrigo Osorio wrote:
>>> Hi Mathieu,
>>>
>>> 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?
>
Yes, the main idea is to find which package you need to install to have a
certain file in your system.

The first example that comes to my mind is a perl script who uses 
LWP::Simple module.
To know which package you need to install in order make your script 
works, just type :

$ pkg provides 'LWP/Simple.pm$'
Name    : p5-libwww-6.31
Desc    : Perl5 library for WWW access
Repo    : FreeBSD
Filename: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/LWP/Simple.pm

- rodrigo