Functionality like "yum whatprovides" in MacPorts?

[Scott Webster]

I believe the command "md5" also comes installed on any Mac OS X
system.  The functionality you are looking for (searching for which
package provides certain files) does not exist unfortunately.  There
have been some recent discussions on the list about it.

Scott

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Jon Hermansen <jon.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nevermind, I found it in package 'md5sha1sum'
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Jon Hermansen <jon.hermansen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>  I'm trying to find out what package includes the executable 'md5sum' but
>> have (as of yet) been unable to find it. YUM provides a "whatprovides"
>> function where I can provide a path (with wildcards, eg "*/md5sum" and it
>> will return the binary package that contains it. Does MacPorts retain some
>> function that tracks installed files, and does it also provide functionality
>> to search typically installed binaries? I realize that variants may vary a
>> package's installed binaries, and as such, MacPorts may be unable to
>> reliably provide this information, but I thought it was worth asking.
>>
>> Alternatively, does anyone know what incantation I can execute to install
>> 'md5sum' on my system? I thought it might belong to coreutils but I still
>> don't have it...
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely,
>>
>> JH
>>
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