PORT-PROVIDES(1)

NAME
port-provides - Find the port that installed a file

SYNOPSIS

port provides file ...

DESCRIPTION

port provides looks up which port installed a given file, if the file has been installed by MacPorts. If the given file is not known to MacPorts it was either obtained using a different method, or has been created by a script or an executable after installation.

All files that are part of a port will be removed when you uninstall said port. For this reason, configuration files are often not registered to a port to preserve modifications across updates.

    Note

    You can only use provides on files that you have installed on your system. MacPorts does currently not have a global database of files. If you’re looking for the port that provides a specific file, provides is useless to you.

BUGS

If MacPorts is configured to use a prefix that contains symlinks, provides may incorrectly report that a file is unknown to MacPorts.

SEE ALSO

port(1), port-contents(1)

AUTHORS

    (C) 2014 The MacPorts Project
    Clemens Lang <cal@macports.org>