Finding ports

SørenDebois debois at diku.dk
Sun Feb 8 11:42:22 PST 2004


On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:27:59AM -0600, Tweax Daemon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:15:48PM +0100, Søren Debois wrote:
> >         /usr/local/bin/fetchmail
> > 
> > I'd like to find all currently not-installed ports, which *would*
> > install the above file?
> > 
> The makefile in /mail/fetchmail port would have all dependencies listed
> if I'm understanding you correctly.

Not quite. Motivating example: I am used to the existence of a utility
/usr/local/bin/wn. Doing 'make search name=wn' does not turn up anything
useful. How do I find out which port (if any) will provide the file
/usr/local/bin/wn? Generally, for any file, how do I find out which
ports provide it?

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	--- Debois


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