On 16-06-29 03:16:02, Theo Buehler wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 08:09:02PM -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> > This doesn't seem possible, but maybe I'm missing something.
> > 
> > I would like pkg_info to tell me where to find a package in 
> > the ports tree.  For example:
> > 
> > If I go to /usr/ports and do make search key=wget I can find 
> > the following.
> > 
> > Port:   wget-1.16.3p0
> > Path:   net/wget
> > Info:   retrieve files from the web via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP
> > Maint:  The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <po...@openbsd.org>
> > Index:  net lang/python
> > L-deps: STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext converters/libiconv devel/libidn 
> > devel/pcre net/libpsl
> > B-deps: STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext archivers/xz devel/gettext-tools
> > R-deps: STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
> > Archs:  any
> > 
> > Which tells me to go to /usr/ports/net/wget. Is there currently
> > a way to achieve this with any of the pkg_ tools?
> 
> Use the -P option:
> 
> $ pkg_info -P wget
> Information for inst:wget-1.18
> 
> Pkgpath:
> net/wget
> 
I can't believe I missed that.  Beats the hell out of my alternative.

 pkg_info -f wget | grep pkgpath | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f 2 -d = 

-- 
Edgar Pettijohn

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