Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:45:10 +0100 From: rank1seeker@gmail.com To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vice versa of 'pkg_info -W' Message-ID: <20130103.144510.650.7@DOMY-PC> In-Reply-To: <bd42fb16-1b0a-482e-88d4-c07d5370ca78@email.android.com> References: <20130102.175558.373.6@DOMY-PC> <bd42fb16-1b0a-482e-88d4-c07d5370ca78@email.android.com>
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> rank1seeker@gmail.com wrote: > > >For example: > ># pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx > >/usr/local/bin/lynx was installed by package lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > > > ># pkg_deinstall lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > > > ># pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx > >pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/lynx: file cannot be found > > > > > >As you can figure it out, I want a reverse method, that is ... > >If I want to have '/usr/local/bin/lynx' installed, which port > >origin(s), would install it? > > The portsearch port will do that. > Well, it works prety much as: > Well, in the case of lynx, where the filename of the executable matches > the package name, it's fairly simple: > > lucid-nonsense:/usr/ports:% cd /usr/ports > lucid-nonsense:/usr/ports:% make search name=lynx > Port: ja-lynx-2.8.7.r1 > Path: /usr/ports/japanese/lynx > Info: A terminal-based World-Wide Web Client with multi-byte modification > Maint: ports@FreeBSD.org > B-deps: libiconv-1.14 > R-deps: libiconv-1.14 > WWW: http://lynx.isc.org/current/ > > Port: ja-lynx-2.8.8.d3 > Path: /usr/ports/japanese/lynx-current > Info: A terminal-based World-Wide Web Client with multi-byte > modification (development version) > Maint: ports@FreeBSD.org > B-deps: libiconv-1.14 > R-deps: libiconv-1.14 > WWW: http://lynx.isc.org/current/ > > Port: lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > Path: /usr/ports/www/lynx > Info: A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client > Maint: jharris@widomaker.com > B-deps: gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 openssl-1.0.1_4 > R-deps: gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 openssl-1.0.1_4 > WWW: http://lynx.isc.org/ > > Port: lynx-2.8.8d12_1 > Path: /usr/ports/www/lynx-current > Info: A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client > Maint: johans@FreeBSD.org > B-deps: gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 libidn-1.25 openssl-1.0.1_4 > pkgconf-0.8.9 > R-deps: gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 libidn-1.25 mime-support-3.52.2 > openssl-1.0.1_4 pkgconf-0.8.9 > WWW: http://lynx.isc.org/current/ > I slightly hopped '-p path' flag of a portsearch would to the trick, but it counts for '/usr/ports/*' path. Not to the path of a binary. > > However, in the general case, there isn't (as far as I know) a database > of all of the files installed by all of the packages that can be > generated from the ports. Unfortunately. I've attempted to grep '/usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist' for 'bin/lynx' and shot myself in a foot! :P Even if it did returned "sane" amount of matches, speed was atrocious. > I believe bapt@ had plans to gather this sort of data on the > yet-to-be-commisioned pkgng build cluster. As that's currently out of > action as a consequence of the security incident, and the whole package > building system is being revised, I don't know if that's still on the > cards or likely to be implemented any time soon. > > Cheers, > > Matthew I see. But for this to work, DB is mandatory. Domagoj Smolčićhome | help
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