How to find all package files

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From: Russell Gadd
Date: Monday, January 7, 2008 - 8:33 am

I am new to OpenBSD and I am not sure what is the correct way to find 
packages.

For example I have tried to install the xfce window manager, and at 
first I looked at the list of files in the packages list and there were 
a lot of files with xfce in the name / description. I looked for one 
which said something like "this is the main package for xfce4" so that 
installing that and all dependencies would do the job, but couldn't find 
such a file. I resorted to looking for xfce in the INDEX and using all 
files where this was mentioned, i.e. forming a list with
 
grep "xfce" INDEX | cut -d "|" -f 1 | sed 's/$/.tgz/g' > 
/tmpdir/xfce4pkglist

then
pkg_add `cat /tmpdir/xfce4pkglist`

I realise that for such a package there would be some parts which were 
optional, so needed to be separated out, but I thought there must be a 
more reliable way to determine which files to include.

Is there a better way to do this?

Russell
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How to find all package files, Russell Gadd, (Mon Jan 7, 8:33 am)
Re: How to find all package files, Kevin Stam, (Mon Jan 7, 11:20 am)
Re: How to find all package files, Josh Grosse, (Mon Jan 7, 11:21 am)
Re: How to find all package files, Darrin Chandler, (Mon Jan 7, 11:33 am)
Re: How to find all package files, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Mon Jan 7, 11:38 am)
Re: How to find all package files, L. V. Lammert, (Mon Jan 7, 11:42 am)
Re: How to find all package files, Vijay Sankar, (Mon Jan 7, 12:01 pm)
Re: How to find all package files, Serge Basterot, (Mon Jan 7, 12:15 pm)
Re: How to find all package files, Stuart Henderson, (Mon Jan 7, 12:16 pm)
Re: How to find all package files, Ted Unangst, (Mon Jan 7, 2:35 pm)
Re: How to find all package files, Bernd Ahlers, (Tue Jan 8, 2:09 am)