Finding files in packages (MANIFEST)

[Marcin Wisnicki]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:25:13 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Chris Rees wrote:
> 
>>> For PackageKit's "app-install", I wanted to list all ports/packages
>>> that had a .desktop file (= an "app").
> 
>> I may be misunderstanding you here, but you could just:
>> 
>> [chris at amnesiac]~% echo /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist | xargs egrep
>> '\.desktop$' | sed 's|/usr/ports/[a-zA-Z]*/||' > contains_desktop
> 
> That could work too (?),

It won't because plist can be generated

> 
> Just thought the MANIFEST could be generated with the packages ? That
> way you wouldn't need to install the ports collection first.

pkg_info -qL your-package.tbz