how to find which package contains file?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 14), David Kelly said:
> On Monday 14 April 2003 08:17 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > >If you have the package and file already installed on your system:
> > >
> > >pkg_info -W /path/to/file
> >
> > thanks but what about the situation described abovwe - when I am
> > trying to find which package to install when there's some file
> > missing? (usually a library but could be something else).
> 
> Something like this (it will take a while so carefully select the RE
> you use for grep. "perllocal.pod" in this example):
> 
> % find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist | xargs grep -l perllocal.pod
> /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/pkg-plist
> /usr/ports/astro/p5-Astro-Sunrise/pkg-plist
> /usr/ports/audio/p5-CDDB_get/pkg-plist
> /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBIx-XHTML_Table/pkg-plist
> /usr/ports/devel/autodia/pkg-plist
> [...]

Although note that some ports dynamically generate their own plists
(the gcc ports, for example), so this will nto work in all cases.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com