Re: pkg_info foo tries to read ./foo

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Subject: Re: pkg_info foo tries to read ./foo
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 15:01:26 +0200

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> Is it on purpose that pkg_info <name> (no -F) tries to read from <nam> in
> the current directory? E.g. pkg_info postfix in /etc/rc.d complains
> 	Cannot read from archive `postfix': Unrecognized archive format
> as /etc/rc.d/postfix exists, but isn't a pkgsrc archive?

Yes. I.e. the way the pkg_summary file is built is pkg_info -X <pkg>.

Joerg

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