Vice versa of 'pkg_info -W'

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 3 17:28:06 UTC 2013


On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Lars Engels wrote:

> Am 02.01.2013 18:55, schrieb rank1seeker at gmail.com:
>> 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?
>
>
> I use porgle for that:
>
> http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/porgle.py

For non-pkgng, what's wrong with pkgdb and pkg_which (portupgrade)?

   # pkgdb -o `pkg_which /usr/local/bin/foo`

And for pkgng:

   # pkg which -o /usr/local/bin/foo

Or am I missing something?

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DE


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