How to find ports name from package that is a flavor?

cracauer@ · 2026-08-30T01:46:00+0100

Given (1) a ports tree and (2) the name of a package that is a non-default flavor of a differently named port, how do I find which port it is coming from?

E.g. qemu-guest-agent

MG · 2026-08-30T01:53:37+0100

Maybe make -n of the port that has flavors and grep out the dependency builds that it triggers with this flavor enabled, and hope you recognize the special case port?

Charlie_ · 2026-08-30T02:39:01+0100

Code:

$ pkg search -o qemu-guest-agent
emulators/qemu                 QEMU CPU Emulator (guest agent)

cracauer@ · 2026-08-30T12:21:18+0100

MG said:
Maybe make -n of the port that has flavors and grep out the dependency builds that it triggers with this flavor enabled, and hope you recognize the special case port?

But I don't know which directory to start `make -n` in.

cracauer@ · 2026-08-30T12:21:53+0100

Charlie_ said:

That works.

But there is no way to ask the ports tree for that info?

MG · 2026-08-30T12:51:26+0100

cracauer@ said:
But I don't know which directory to start `make -n` in.

In the port dir but all dependencies that are already installed will not show up anymore. It's a chain of if conditions that shows what would be done by make in the current situation. Something must differ if you add a FLAVOR= assignment to the make command that's recognized..

Charlie_ · 2026-08-30T13:25:35+0100

cracauer@ said:
But there is no way to ask the ports tree for that info?

It might not be exactly what you were hoping for.

Code:

$ /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch qemu-guest-agent

Port:   qemu-guest-agent-11.1.0
Path:   /usr/ports/emulators/qemu
Info:   QEMU CPU Emulator (guest agent)
Maint:  bofh@FreeBSD.org
Index:  emulators
B-deps: ...