Re: Detecting pkgsrc install (ocsinventory-agent)

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 21 May 2011 18:10, Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 06:03:55PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> net/ocsinventory-agent provides system inventories, including
>> installed packages. The various backends tag installed packages as
>> coming from 'deb', 'rpm', 'ByHand' or, for the output from pkg_info
>> ''. It would be nice to be able to identify pkgsrc from other pkg_info
>> commands, potentially by running a specific pkg_admin or other
>> command.
>>
>> The specific use case is on a RedHat ES server where pkgsrc is used to
>> provide up to date perl and other packages without impacting the base
>> RPM installs.
>>
>> So, does anyone how of a simple command option to differentiate
>> installed pkgsrc tools from Open or FreeBSD tools, or would it make
>> sense to provide one? Note, I do not want to use OS as pkgsrc is
>> multiplatform, and would prefer to avoid checking for /usr/pkg as
>> admins can reasonably alter that
>
> random thoughts, may or may not be useful:
>
>        pkg_info -V
>
>        test -e ${PKG_DBDIR}/pkgdb.byfile.db
>
>        test -d ${PKG_DBDIR}/../pkg.refcount
>
>        test -d ${PKG_DBDIR}/digest-*
>
>        test -e ${PKG_DBDIR}/digest-*/+SIZE_ALL
>
>        test -e ${PKG_DBDIR}/digest-*/+BUILD_INFO
>
>        test -e ${PKG_DBDIR}/digest-*/+BUILD_VERSION
>

Thanks!

Maybe we can add a 'pkgsrc-' prefix to the output of pkg_info -V going
forward? :)

Using only the pkg_* tools is there a standard way to determine PKG_DBDIR?