Presentation

Pkg-provides is an open source project providing a database with the list of every single files installed by FreeBSD packages and a pluging for pkg - the FreeBSD package manager - to fetch and search this database.

Pkg-provides is used to query which package in your pkg catalog provides a particular file given a pattern

The database is update daily based on the FreeBSD official repos.

Pkg-provides database and plugin is not part of the FreeBSD project nor maintained by pkg developers.

Supported versions

How to install pkg plugin

First you need to install the plugin using the the pkg command.

$ sudo pkg install pkg-provides

After that you must update the pkg configuration file to enable the plugin

PKG_PLUGINS_DIR = "/usr/local/lib/pkg/";
PKG_ENABLE_PLUGINS = true;
PLUGINS [ provides ];
  

Check if the plugin is installed

  $ pkg plugin
NAME     DESC                                                              VERSION
provides  A plugin for querying which package provides a particular file   0.4.2

Basic usage

Once the plugin installed, update the database:

$ sudo pkg provides -u
Fetching provides database: 100%   14 MiB  15.1MB/s    00:01
Extracting database....success

Now we can search for files using the PCRE pattern:

pkg provides bin/firefox$
 Name    : firefox-esr-68.7.0_1,1
Desc    : Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
Repo    : FreeBSD
Filename: usr/local/bin/firefox

Name    : firefox-75.0_2,1kee

Desc    : Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
Repo    : FreeBSD
Filename: usr/local/bin/firefox
 

Documentation

• The plugin manpage
• My Fosdem 2018 Lightning Talk 

Source code / how to contribute

Github repo : pkg-provides

Donations

The pkg-provide server and its content is developed and maintained by volunteers and is not backed up by a commercial entity. If you want,, feel free to make a donation to support our efforts.