On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Dieter Baron wrote:
>> 2) What is the intended use for this? Doesn't look like it can be
>>    fed into sh(1) at least...
>
>  As a summary of a binary package collection for use by tools like
> pkg_chk and pkg_select.  See the thread ``pkg summary file format
> proposal'' from February.

Thanks for the background information.
I have looked over your patch, and it seems fine.
The only thing that's not 100% clear to me is how the distinction between 
an 'installed' package and one in a package is made - the fname variable 
seems to be used here. If that assumption is right, maybe that should be
documented (i.e. add a comment), or another variable with a better name 
could be used.

In general, the code seems to be under-commented, esp. that in var.c - 
guessing what a function does is always painful to me.


  - Hubert