Finding ports

SørenDebois debois at diku.dk
Sun Feb 8 05:15:51 PST 2004


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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	--- Debois


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