August 16, 2020

Getting the pkg-plist contents for a FreeBSD port/package

One of the lesser known FreshPorts features is searching pkg-plist. You want nslookup and dig but you can’t find the package which installs that. The FreshPorts search can find it for you. When a new commit occurs for a given port, FreshPorts extracts and store the pkg-plist information. This allows you to search. How does

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