Re: how to show files list of package?

On 30/05/2023 21:16, doug wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2023, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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>> On 30/05/2023 16:48, doug wrote:
>>>> There isn't really a good solution currently to being able to query 
>>>> a repository and find what packages contain a particular file.
>>>>
>>> pkg info -lard | grep name
>>
>> Only works for packages you already have installed and not, as I 
>> specified, for any package in a repository.
> 
> That kind of how I interperted the question. Your answer was very 
> specific. We have several poudriere repositories and it looks like a 
> simple find from the repository base would do this. Mostly I am asking 
> this to see what I am missing.

If you control the repositories and consequently have filesystem access 
to them, then yes, you could traverse the directory structure and 
examine the contents of all the packages in there to see which ones 
contain a particular file.

While that's possible, it's not really going to be practical should you 
have any volume of such requests.  Even more so if all you have is 
web-based access to a repository, where you'ld have to laboriously 
download each of the packages in order to analyse the conents.

However in practice it turns out that this sort of query isn't a blocker 
particularly often.  There's a relatively simple alternative that's 
"good enough" most of the time.  Generally, any interesting file you 
might want to install is going to belong to some obvious correspondingly 
named package.  So, if you want to install the `gonkulator` application, 
then just a `pkg search -x gonk` should show up all the likely candidates.

	Cheers,

	Matthew