software packages

[Roman Neuhauser]

# m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk / 2003-06-26 22:12:50 +0100:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:34:33PM -0400, david wrote:
> > Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series
> > 
> > Since all files are downloaded to the /usr/ports/distfiles,
> > I would like to know which software packages belong 
> > to what program. For example, I install mplayer and it
> > downloaded mplayer and other files for it. Is it possible 
> > to know which of these files are for mplayer. 
> 
> You can see what source code tarballs and other distfiles would be
> downloaded for each port by changing to the port directory and running
> 'make -V DISTFILES':
> 
>     /usr/ports:% cd multimedia/mplayer
>     ...ports/multimedia/mplayer:% make -V DISTFILES
>     MPlayer-0.90.tar.bz2

    The value of this variable may be influenced by options you compiled
    the port with, though.

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