Re: pkg_info(1) and wildcards / by-file listenings

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

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> Yeah, I'd sort alphanumerically by default and provide an option to sort
> by install time. It currently is something like "sort by install time
> unless the user deinstalled enough packages so that FFS reused an old
> slot".

        Count me in violent agreement.

> >         On a side note, would there be any sense in make -e take
> >         multiple package names?
>
> I'd prefer not to. E.g. typing "pkg_info -e x*" should be an error. If
> it is desirable to test for more than one package at the same time, the
> behavior of having multiple -e options could be fixed though.

        So that would be changing the current behaviour? I have no
        objections to that, but it might be nice if pkgsrc provided
        a convenient way to list a subset of installed packages in
        a 'one line per package' form.

        For example when checking on installed libraries the current
        options seem to be:

            - ls /var/db/pkg/lib<TAB>
            - pkg_info | grep '^lib'
            - pkg_info -e lib\*

       When I used tcsh I found the following two options very helpful:

           complete pkg_delete 'p@*@`ls /var/db/pkg`@'
           complete pkg_info 'p@*@`ls /var/db/pkg`@'

        but that was shell specific...

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