Re: how to show files list of package?

On 29/05/2023 20:13, hlyg wrote:
> Thank andrew and Paul!
> 
> pkg list packagename, that's command i need
> 
> i read pkg manual, list isn't listed in COMMANDS section
> 
> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.2-RELEASE+and+Ports
> 
> i've thought using  pkg-rquery, maybe freebsd isn't for me
> 

Don't be put off -- pkg(8) is a complex beast with many different 
sub-commands.  You'll find though that you only need a relatively small 
sub-set of those commands routinely, and once you've learned those, it's 
pretty routine.

`pkg list` is an alias for `pkg info -ql` -- it's in the default 
pkg.conf so likely, but not guarranteed, to be present.  Aliases don't 
generally have manual pages; just the underlying commands.  You can see 
what aliases are defined looking at the output of `pkg alias`

If you were thinking of using `pkg rquery` (which is designed to tell 
you about packages available from the repository rather than those 
installed on your machines) I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to 
list the files in an uninstalled package.  That's because adding all 
that information to the package index would bloat it unreasonably, and 
have a horrible effect on performance.

There isn't really a good solution currently to being able to query a 
repository and find what packages contain a particular file.

You need to download the package before that information is available -- 
that's why pkg(8) often asks a second time for you to confirm changes: 
the second time round it will have downloaded the new packages you've 
asked it to install, and so it now knows a lot more about the package 
contents and hence about file conflicts etc. that would lead it to 
remove some other packages in order to install what you requested.

	Cheers,

	Matthew