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From: Mike Jenkins <mjenkins@carp.gbr.epa.gov>
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Subject: verifying packages
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I was taking a walk on the Linux side and saw some nifty features
in the package manipulation utility (rpm in this case).  One thing
is the ability to verify a package (rpm -V package).  Another is 
the ability to use the simple package name without version numbers
("rpm -q -i package" instead of "rpm -q -i package-1.2.3b").

Any chance the FreeBSD package utilities could inherit these?
How about a single pkg command with switches for info, add, etc.?

Mike

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