need help with the last-two-ports!

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Fri Jan 22 03:33:17 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:15:57AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:14:30 -0800, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > 	Thanks muchly.   I'd like to know which pkg_*  utility you used to find
> > 	which port builds what.  if there is one!
> 
> There is, but I did it the old-fahioned way, shame on me. :-)
> 
> 	% cd /usr/ports
> 	% make search name=nspr
> 
> It doesn't work in all imaginable cases, of course, but
> here, it did.
> 

	i hope i NEVER forget this: pkg_info -W <<port>>

	surprised how many things depend on that nspr...  wow.


> 
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> Polytropon
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