Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:56:26 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl> Cc: Bernard Higonnet <bthcom@higonnet.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to find out which port loads which library? Message-ID: <CADLo83-nsAuUnrHVvkfDC_TC-Q9JL=ggn6%2BpdAYKFe16%2B55B%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130217172125.GA63086@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> References: <51210EAD.3010009@higonnet.net> <20130217172125.GA63086@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
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On 17 Feb 2013 17:31, "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl> wrote:
>
> Bernard Higonnet wrote:
>
> > Is there a simple, direct, complete, and unequivocal way to find out
> > which port(s) install which libraries?
>
> Something like this perhaps?
> # grep libfoobar.so /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist
Most shells won't allow an argument list that long.
% find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep libfoobar.so \{} \;
has been shown to be faster than hacking around arg list limits with echo |
xargs.
Unfortunately neither method works with automatically generated plists....
Chris
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