Re: pkg/42172

[Taylor Stearns <tstearns%pobox.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42172; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor Stearns <tstearns%pobox.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/42172
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:18:13 +0000

  > From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
  > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:28:57 +0700
  >
  > I believe the difference is supposed to be that pkg_admin checks packages
  > that have been installed, whereas lintpkgsrc -V is supposed to check binary
  > package files (installed or not, but which could be installed) that have been
  > compiled (or downloaded) sometime in the past.
 
 Thanks for the explanation! That's very helpful.
 
  > Whether it (linkpkgsrc -V) works or not, or is useful to anyone or not
  > I couldn't say (I prefer to keep all my compiled binpkgs, vulnerable or not.)
 
 So I'd argue that the functionality described above should be treated as
 a new feature request if anybody wants to resurrect it, and in the meantime
 we should remove the old (non-working) code and references to it in
 documentation. Any objections to that, in the above patch?
 
 -Taylor