From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 6:46:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9CF37C38B for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 06:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id IAA64217; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:46:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200006091346.IAA64217@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: How to verify which packages are installed In-Reply-To: <20000609154036.V81376@draenor.org> from Marc Silver at "Jun 9, 2000 03:40:36 pm" To: marcs@draenor.org (Marc Silver) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:46:12 -0500 (CDT) Cc: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham), alexkwan@pacific.net.hk (Alex Kwan), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Silver babbled: > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 15:40:36 +0200 > I agree that pkg_info is probably simpler, but it's always nice to have > alternatives. :) > > I'm just adding my alternative. :) > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:37:55AM -0500, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > /var/db/pkg isn't a text file. Wouldn't pkg_info be simpler and easier to > > read? How do you read it? It shows up in Klingon on my screen. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message