On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, stan wrote:

One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2.
This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the software
on this machine, so I figured I'd just rebuild the port that provides this
library, but I can't figure out how to determine which on that would be.

I have the feeling that I should be able to use pkg_info for this, but I
can't seem to figure out how to accomplish this. Is this the right tool? If
so, how do I use it for this, if not, what is the correct tool?

pkg_which will do it if you can provide the full path to the missing file. Which is easy if you already have the file installed and can find the full path (locate libxcb.so.2), but not so easy if it's missing.

Sometimes, a simple "whereis" will help:

% whereis libxcb
libxcb: /usr/ports/x11/libxcb

If the port is missing or outdated, pkgdb -F ought to let you install it.

And of course there's always crushing brute force:

% find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist -exec grep libxcb.so.2 {} +
/usr/ports/x11/libxcb/pkg-plist:lib/libxcb.so.2

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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