querying the registry for installed files

[Brandon Allbery]

"port provides" actually does some extra work to normalize paths before
querying; I believe René is looking for the underlying database, and
possibly its constraints (e.g. whether it includes inactives --- which I
don't think it does).

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Ken Cunningham <
ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rene, do you mean
>
> port provides  /path/to/file
>
> or something fancier?
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> > On Oct 28, 2016, at 11:41 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think the registry keeps track of all installed files, whether they
> belong to active or inactive ports, right?
> > If so, is there a way to query the registry with a filename pattern, to
> obtain the full paths of known matching filesand the port(s) which provide
> them?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > René
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