Re: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE amd64, Perl, and URI: : Escape
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 19:58:46 UTC
On 2/27/22 06:26, Dan Langille wrote: > David Christensen wrote on 2/25/22 7:39 PM: >> On 2/25/22 15:31, Dan Langille wrote: >> >>>>>>>> It appears that David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> said: >>>>>>>>> Is there a CLI tool, WWW page, etc., that lets me list and/or >>>>>>>>> search the >>>>>>>>> contents of FreeBSD packages? >> >>> two suggestions: >>> >>> This search term on most search engines: site:freshports.org URI::Escape > > Sorry, I did not know the 'correct' answer at the time. > > It should be clear *why* they fail: the package descriptions do not > mention the critical keywords ("URI::Escape"). > > FreshPorts does attempt to pull the pkg-plist information if possible. > It did for this port. I suppose we could go a step farther and figure > out how to determine that "URI/Escape.pm"== "URI::Escape" and save that > as a search term. That would help your search considerably. What is pkg-plist? 2022-02-27 11:45:06 toor@f3 ~ # pkg plist pkg: unknown command: plist For more information on available commands and options see 'pkg help'. 2022-02-27 11:45:23 toor@f3 ~ # pkg-plist -bash: pkg-plist: command not found 2022-02-27 11:46:17 toor@f3 ~ # man pkg | grep plist 2022-02-27 11:46:35 toor@f3 ~ # man pkg-plist No manual entry for pkg-plist 2022-02-27 11:46:39 toor@f3 ~ # pkg search pkg-plist STFW: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/print/foo2zjs/pkg-plist That looks like a listing of files contained in the GitHub project "freebsd-ports" (?). (I do not use Git or GitHub.) David