Subject: pkg_info broken?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/10/2003 19:43:28
Pkg_info does not any longer grok package names like 'expat', 'gmake',
etc.  I have to give the whole package name, 'expat-1.95.6nb1' or
'gmake-3.80nb2'. For example,

	% pkg_info
	digest-20021220     Message digest wrapper utility
	sudo-1.6.7.5        Allow others to run commands as root
	tcsh-6.12.00nb1     Extended C-shell with many useful features
	vim-share-6.2.0     Data files for the vim editor (vi clone)
	vim-6.2.0nb1        Vim editor (vi clone) without GUI
	screen-3.9.15       Multi-screen window manager
	libtool-base-1.4.20010614nb14 Generic shared library support script (the script itself)
	db4-4.1.25          Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB version 4
	gmake-3.80nb2       GNU version of 'make' utility
	expat-1.95.6nb1     XML parser library written in C
	% pkg_info expat
	% pkg_info expat-1.95.6nb1
	Information for expat-1.95.6nb1:

	Comment:
	XML parser library written in C

	Description:
	This is James Clark's expat XML parser library in C. It is a stream oriented
	parser that requires setting handlers to deal with the structure that the
	parser discovers in the document.

	Homepage:
	http://expat.sourceforge.net/

This is pretty annoying, and it also breaks builds in pkgsrc.

Dave

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