NAME

pkg provides —

query which package provides a file matching a particular pattern

SYNOPSIS

pkg provides [-u] [-f]

pkg provides [-r repo] pattern

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

The search pattern can be any perl compatible regular expression (PCRE).

The following options are supported by pkg provides:

-u: Check if a new database file is available and then perform the update.
-f: Force the update.
-r repo: Restrict search results to a specific repository.
pattern: Can be any perl compatible regular expression (PCRE). The search is not case sensitive.

PROVIDES_FETCH_ON_UPDATE: If set to "NO", it disables the default behaviour and doesn't perform a pkg provides database update after updating pkg.
PROVIDES_URL: When set, overrides the default pkg provides server URL. The default value is "https://pkg-provides.osorio.me".

The pkg provides utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Update the provides database:

$ pkg provides -u

Search for a package that provides bin/firefox

$ pkg provides
  bin/firefox$

Search for packages that provide a file with the pattern libbz2.so.*

$ pkg provides
  ^libbz2.so.

Look for bin/firefox but only in the FreeBSD repository

$ pkg provides -r FreeBSD
  bin/firefox$

pkg provides was written by Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>.