From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 18:48:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3650A37B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA06792; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:48:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:48:40 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: library-port matching tool? Message-ID: <20001010214840.A6764@blackhelicopters.org> References: <127489075@toto.iv> <14819.46272.982612.387928@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14819.46272.982612.387928@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:30:56PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:30:56PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > If you're installing FreeBSD packages, they should notice the > dependency and install the package for you. If they're not doing that, > notify the maintainer of the port from which the package is built. Oh, I don't have this problem with ports. I have this problem with random crap I pull down off the Net. Ports don't give me anything resembling a problem. :) > > Do we have a generalized method of looking up a library to find out > > what port it's in? > Yes, but it sucks: > find /usr/ports -name PLIST | xargs grep Hmmm... does that work if the port isn't installed? -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message