how to do pkg_info -W without pkg_info?

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sun Sep 30 17:25:57 UTC 2018


@lbutlr writes:

>  I would like to find out what port installed a specific file, and
>  in searching I found the suggestion, from 2010, to use
>  
>  pkg_info -W <name of file>
>  
>  But on FreeBSD 11.1-p4-RELEASE with postmaster, there is no
>  pkg_info and `pkg info` doesn't have a -W flag nor, apparently, a
>  way to check for where a file came from.

	Try: "pkg which".


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff



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