return category for a port?

[Jonathan Glaschke]

Hello,

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:01:06PM +0200, maarfree wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just build /usr/ports/packages/All packages for all ports
> installed on my system with some awk and bash. Does anyone know a way to
> return the category for an installed port? I can't find any option in
> pkg_info. I would like to create the symlinks in /usr/ports/packages as
> well.
> 
> Maarten
> 
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Ever tried pkg_info -v?

jogla# pkg_info -v gimp-print-4.2.7_1 | grep Package\ origin
        Package origin: print/gimp-print

Why do you want to create these symlinks? FreeBSD does it for you if you tell it
to build a package. Like "portupgrade -p packagename" or "make install package
clean".

Jonathan

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