Re: bin/46654: misleading man entry for pkg_info -F

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR bin/46654; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: bin/46654: misleading man entry for pkg_info -F
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 23:01:46 +0200
>
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:20:00PM +0000, htodd%twofifty.com@localhost wrote:
> > Everything beyond the first sentence is extraneous and always leads to me trying 
> "pkg_info -eF /path/to/filename" which doesn't work. Just delete the second 
> sentence as it makes no sense.
>
> pkg_info -Fe /usr/pkg/bin/emacs
> does work (if you have emacs installed)

Ah, so -eF doesn't work, but -Fe works. I sent a diff for the man page
but I'm not sure where it went. You may want to fix it yourself as I'm
just going to screw up the formatting and get yelled at.

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