pkg_info question

Casey Scott casey at phantombsd.org
Wed Jun 22 17:19:56 GMT 2005


Sorry, I meant I need to know what package a file belongs to that does not
exist in the file system already. I need to know where to get something,
not where it came from.

> In the last episode (Jun 22), Casey Scott said:
>> Is it possible to get pkg_info, or some other command, to show what
>> package contains a file?
>>
>> E.g.  find what package has  /usr/local/bin/convert
>
> pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/convert
>
> Or if you have portupgrade installed, "pkg_which
> /usr/local/bin/convert" is faster.
>
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> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
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