From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 12 6:47:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from terrapin.ru.ac.za (terrapin.ru.ac.za [146.231.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A4814E85 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 06:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org) Received: from duca.dialup.ru.ac.za ([146.231.98.24] helo=mithrandr.moria.org) by terrapin.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11Q9yt-0003Wp-00 for ports@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:47:47 +0200 Received: (qmail 40291 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Sep 1999 13:47:22 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:47:22 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Harry Putnam Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pack management Message-ID: <19990912154721.A40152@mithrandr.moria.org> Reply-To: ports@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Harry Putnam on Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 12:00:40AM -0700 Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, (I've directed the replies to a possibly more relevant list, ports@FreeBSD.org) Harry Putnam wrote: > Having seen several mentions on this list of FreeBSD package > managment being better than rpm. I'm looking for the diagnostic type > commands that will reveal the state of the system or a particular > package. > > Or a way to trace the files installed when a package is installed, > extract individual original files from packages. Or find which > package holds a particular file. > > Hopefully pkg_info, pkg_add, pkg_delete isn't all of it. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message