pkg-provides(8)

Gary Aitken freebsd at dreamchaser.org
Fri Feb 5 17:38:31 UTC 2021


On 2/5/21 3:12 AM, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 04/02/2021 19:31, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> On 2/4/21 12:26 AM, Graham Perrin wrote: …
>>> 
>>> <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-provides(8)> …
>> Thanks!  A good reason to upgrade to 12.3; I don't see provides on
>> 11.4.
> 
> Which ABI/architecture?
> 
> <https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg-provides/#packages> 0.7.1
> is packaged for FreeBSD:11:amd64 and FreeBSD:11:i386. If it's not
> currently in the repo, retry after the next update becomes available;
> or <https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg-provides/#add> install
> the port.

My mistake.  I somehow thought all of the pkg* stuff was part of the actual
pkg package, since if I do man pkg-install I get the man page for pkg install.
I see now it is not.

Gary


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