How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

Anders F Björklund afb at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Nov 21 09:39:54 UTC 2010


Charlie Kester wrote:

> But I expect these two find & greps will detect the majority of filename
> conflicts.  Unless someone has a better recommendation, I'll settle for
> less than perfect.

Using a MANIFEST file for packages works, if you have one available.
It's simply a file listing of the contents of each and every package.
Then just grep that ?

--anders



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