<div dir="ltr">&quot;port provides&quot; 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&#39;t think it does).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Ken Cunningham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" target="_blank">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Rene, do you mean<br>
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port provides  /path/to/file<br>
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or something fancier?<br>
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Ken<br>
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&gt; On Oct 28, 2016, at 11:41 AM, René J.V. Bertin &lt;<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; Hi,<br>
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&gt; I think the registry keeps track of all installed files, whether they belong to active or inactive ports, right?<br>
&gt; 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?<br>
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&gt; Thanks,<br>
&gt; René<br>
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