Subject: Re: bin/32068: pkg_info -Q broken for (local) binary pkgs, output inconsistent
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/14/2005 10:21:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/32068; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, hubertf@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/32068: pkg_info -Q broken for (local) binary pkgs, output inconsistent
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:20:03 +0100

 On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:16:00AM +0000, feyrer@cs.stevens.edu wrote:
 > 	1)
 > 	pkg_info -Q claims to be able to extract values from the 
 > 	buildinfo(?). This does not work when applied to (local) 
 > 	binary packages, and I strongly doubt it works for FTP/HTTP 
 > 	remote ones.
 
   Fixed, thank's for the bug report.  (It did work with remote binary
 packages.)
 
 > 	2) 
 > 	The output format should be changed to print "variable=value"
 > 	if -q is not given, and just "value" (as now) if -q is used.
 
   This is a user-visible interface change with a good chance of
 breaking scripts.  Please bring this up (with a rationale for the
 change) on tech-pkg.
 
 						yours,
 						dillo