pkg/59998: index packages by plists

>Number:         59998
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       index packages by plists
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 13 03:25:00 +0000 2026
>Originator:     Taylor R Campbell
>Release:        
>Organization:
The IndexBSD Packaginc.
>Environment:
>Description:

	pkgin can search packages by name.  It would be nice if we
	could also search packages by what files they install.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Ask: What package do I install to get, say, /usr/pkg/bin/pdfjoin?

>Fix:

	Quick hack to create a locate(1) database of package files from
	my notes the other year:

# generate newline-separated list of $PATHNAME/$PKG
# (hope packages don't have any pathnames with newlines in them...)
# about 500 MB uncompressed for 2022Q4, 30 MB gzipped
# XXX handle long package names wider than 80 columns for progress output
(n=0; for x in *.tgz; do n=$((n + 1)); done; i=0; for x in *.tgz; do printf '\r%80s\r%s/%s %s' '' $i $n $x >&2; pkg_info -qL $x | sed -e 's,$,/'"$x"','; i=$((i + 1)); done | gzip -nc > /tmp/pkgindex.2022Q4.gz; printf '\r%80s\r\n' '' >&2)

# generate bigrams
BIGRAM=$(gunzip -c < /tmp/pkgindex.2022Q4.gz | /usr/libexec/locate.bigram)

# generate locate(1) database
# about 30 MB uncompressed for 2022Q4, 23 MB gzipped
/usr/libexec/locate.code "$BIGRAM" | gzip -nc >/tmp/pkglocate.2022Q4.gz

	Part of this pipeline, of course, is embarrassingly
	parallelizable.

	TBD:
	1. Integrate into pbulk or other infrastructure.
	2. Decide how to publish this.
	3. Ship tool (or pkgin patches) for automatically downloading,
	   caching, and querying the index.