Vice versa of 'pkg_info -W'

[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/01/2013 17:55, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> For example:
> # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx
> /usr/local/bin/lynx was installed by package lynx-2.8.7.2,1
> 
> # pkg_deinstall lynx-2.8.7.2,1
> 
> # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx
> pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/lynx: file cannot be found
> 
> 
> As you can figure it out, I want a reverse method, that is ...
> If I want to have '/usr/local/bin/lynx' installed, which port origin(s), would install it?

Well, in the case of lynx, where the filename of the executable matches
the package name, it's fairly simple:

lucid-nonsense:/usr/ports:% cd /usr/ports
lucid-nonsense:/usr/ports:% make search name=lynx
Port:	ja-lynx-2.8.7.r1
Path:	/usr/ports/japanese/lynx
Info:	A terminal-based World-Wide Web Client with multi-byte modification
Maint:	ports at FreeBSD.org
B-deps:	libiconv-1.14
R-deps:	libiconv-1.14
WWW:	http://lynx.isc.org/current/

Port:	ja-lynx-2.8.8.d3
Path:	/usr/ports/japanese/lynx-current
Info:	A terminal-based World-Wide Web Client with multi-byte
modification (development version)
Maint:	ports at FreeBSD.org
B-deps:	libiconv-1.14
R-deps:	libiconv-1.14
WWW:	http://lynx.isc.org/current/

Port:	lynx-2.8.7.2,1
Path:	/usr/ports/www/lynx
Info:	A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client
Maint:	jharris at widomaker.com
B-deps:	gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 openssl-1.0.1_4
R-deps:	gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 openssl-1.0.1_4
WWW:	http://lynx.isc.org/

Port:	lynx-2.8.8d12_1
Path:	/usr/ports/www/lynx-current
Info:	A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client
Maint:	johans at FreeBSD.org
B-deps:	gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 libidn-1.25 openssl-1.0.1_4
pkgconf-0.8.9
R-deps:	gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.14 libidn-1.25 mime-support-3.52.2
openssl-1.0.1_4 pkgconf-0.8.9
WWW:	http://lynx.isc.org/current/


However, in the general case, there isn't (as far as I know) a database
of all of the files installed by all of the packages that can be
generated from the ports.

I believe bapt@ had plans to gather this sort of data on the
yet-to-be-commisioned pkgng build cluster.  As that's currently out of
action as a consequence of the security incident, and the whole package
building system is being revised, I don't know if that's still on the
cards or likely to be implemented any time soon.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

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