Date: 23 Feb 2022 12:51:32 -0500 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: dpchrist@holgerdanske.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE amd64, Perl, and URI: : Escape Message-ID: <20220223175134.4C6B737CE796@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <093c8238-7d42-f04b-6597-12cd229c59d8@holgerdanske.com>
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It appears that David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> said: >On 2/22/22 07:12, Andrew Gould wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 9:59 PM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: >> >>> It appears that David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> said: > >>>> Is there a CLI tool, WWW page, etc., that lets me list and/or search the >>>> contents of FreeBSD packages? >>> >>> Not easily. I have the ports installed so I can grep through the >>> pkg-plist files. > >> I’ve found http://www.freshports.org to be very useful. > > >I am unable to formulate a search that finds URI::Escape. It helps a lot if you know that perl stores its packages in a directory tree so the file name for URI::Escape is URI/Escape Type that into the Google search box at freshports and net/p5-URI is one of the results. In the result page you have to click a button to expand the pkg-plist results to see which one has that file. I agree this is not super obvious, either. R's, John
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