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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