Subject: Re: new pkg_info flag
To: None <othyro@freeshell.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/26/2004 03:35:39
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:07:27PM -0500, othyro@freeshell.org wrote:
> 
> Could we have something like this for pkg_info:
> 
> % pkg_info -B jpeg | grep PKGPATH
> PKGPATH=graphics/jpeg
> 
> just an option to return the location of the package in the tree. Maybe "-P" or something. Just a thought...

     -Q      Show the definition of variable from the build information for
             each package.  An empty string is returned if no such variable
             definition is found for the package(s).

This is available in the pkg_info (part of pkgtools/pkg_install)
distributed with pkgsrc.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>