Re: Finding ports

From: Søren Debois (debois_at_diku.dk)
Date: 02/08/04

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    Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:15:48 +0100
    To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
    
    

    On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:19:17PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
    > > Is there some easy way to find all ports which install some given
    > > file?
    > > E.g., find all ports which installs /usr/bin/pkgrep.
    >
    > man pkg_info
    > You can use pkg_info to do a lot of different things. It's quite the
    > handy tool.

    Sorry, I am being unclear. Example: my system currently does not contain
    a file

            /usr/local/bin/fetchmail

    I'd like to find all currently not-installed ports, which *would*
    install the above file?

    P.S. I am aware of the mail/fetchmail port; this is just an example.

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