Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 09:10:48 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: pkgbase support in 15.0 Message-ID: <7hcliswbmvxqzicnim4ccsbk2sqsvhh3mkck74dnwmwfqw2haz@fcwkj337ublf> In-Reply-To: <300e71f8-4a35-4496-8bf3-9d947f90990a@FreeBSD.org> References: <86a57t3cfu.fsf@asn.ftfl.ca> <CAKAYmMLu9HUbqNgoe=Qj9RSarWSBsm5pBqD1TqtDm3abcwZ3=A@mail.gmail.com> <300e71f8-4a35-4496-8bf3-9d947f90990a@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue 06 May 09:07, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/05/2025 21:58, Chuck Tuffli wrote: > > One aspect of running pkg-base I've found tricky is figuring out which > > package provides a missing binary, library, or man page. The port > > pkg-provides answers this type of question for ports, but (seemingly) > > not for pkg-base (unless I'm being dumb?). Are there plans to add this > > type of support? Alternatively, if I'm being dumb, can someone point > > me at some docs? TIA > > There's provision in `pkg repo` (see: pkg-repo(8)) to generate a > `filesite.txz` file as repository metadata, which lists all of the files, > their checksums and various other per-file metadata for all of the files in > all of the packages in the repository. > > This isn't normally generated for the repositories provided by the project > due to limitations on available space and bandwidth. I have a better design for the db which divides by 10 the size of the db, and when I will be done working on the provides/requires for the ports tree, I'll work on it, so we can provide a "pkg rwhich" command or a like. Best regards, Bapthome | help
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