Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:38:23 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: debois@diku.dk Subject: Re: Finding ports Message-ID: <Sea1-F49G5XvUgA2h2Y0003a3ed@hotmail.com>
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On Feb. 8, 2004 Søren Debois <debois@diku.dk> wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:27:59AM -0600, Tweax Daemon wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:15:48PM +0100, Søren Debois wrote: > > > /usr/local/bin/fetchmail > > > > > I'd like to find all currently not-installed ports, which *would* > > > install the above file? > > > > The makefile in /mail/fetchmail port would have all dependencies >listed > > if I'm understanding you correctly. > >Not quite. Motivating example: I am used to the existence of a utility >/usr/local/bin/wn. Doing 'make search name=wn' does not turn up anything >useful. How do I find out which port (if any) will provide the file >/usr/local/bin/wn? Generally, for any file, how do I find out which >ports provide it? > >-- > --- Debois Hi, This is far from perfect, but may get it done for you. Many ports include a pkg-plist file that lists installed files. (Some ports dynamically create the plist, others may use Makefile variables instead of having an actual plist.) I'd imagine there's some trickery (grep, etc.) you could do to extract port names from occurences of a string in the pkg-plist file. (Note that the prefix, in this case /usr/local, is not included in the plist.) Regards, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN Dial-up Accelerator. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/
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