I came across an executable - xxd - installed under ../pkgsrc/bin which
didn't seem to be either an actual pkgsrc package nor a recognized
dependency for a package. Furthermore, the manpage xxd(1) didn't provide
any clues as to where it might have come from. Using the output of
'pkg_info -a -L' and grepping for "bin/" revealed is was bundled with "vim-share", data files for the vim editor, which gets auto-installed by vim(1). This isn't really a common problem but was sufficiently annoying
that I wrote a helper script for future use:

--
#!/bin/sh -e
# pkg_orphan - greps 'pkg_info -a -L' output to determine which
# pkgsrc package installed ORPHAN
#

ORPHAN=${1:--help}
FIRSTCHAR=$(echo "${ORPHAN}" | sed "s/\(^.\).*$/\1/")

# print_usage function:
print_usage() {
echo "
usage: pkg_orphan [-h|-?|<executable under /usr/pkg/{,s}bin/>]

ex) pkg_orphan xxd => xxd installed by vim-share-7.2.446
"
}

# find_orphan function:
find_orphan() {
pkg_info -a -L | grep -B30 -e "bin/${ORPHAN}" | \
sed -n "{
/^Information/s/Information for/${ORPHAN} installed by/
/^${ORPHAN}/s/:$//
/^${ORPHAN}/p }" | \
tail -n1
}

# main:
case $FIRSTCHAR in
-) print_usage ;;
*) find_orphan ;;
esac

exit 0
--

The "grep -B30" bit is just a guess at how far back one would need to look
for the associated PLIST header; on my system the pkg with the most "bin/" PLIST entries is ImageMagick (16 entries). Also, the script assumes the defaults for pkg_info(1) WRT the pkg_dbdir; would need to be tweaked with
the '-K pkg_dbdir' option for non-std setups.

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pnwdaemon@always.wet wrote:

I came across an executable - xxd - installed under ../pkgsrc/bin which didn't seem to be either an actual pkgsrc package nor a recognized
dependency for a package. Furthermore, the manpage xxd(1) didn't provide
any clues as to where it might have come from. Using the output of
'pkg_info -a -L' and grepping for "bin/" revealed is was bundled with "vim-share", data files for the vim editor, which gets auto-installed by vim(1). This isn't really a common problem but was sufficiently annoying
that I wrote a helper script for future use:

<snip>

Very nice,

John

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