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Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> writes:

> Does this impact the pkgdb?  To be honest, I don't know where the
> information that pkg_info returns is stored.  :)  Probably should have
> sought this out a long time ago, but hey, I'm lazy.

I'm lazy too, so I won't bother checking first, but I'm nearly certain
you'll find the answer in the FILES section of the pkgdb manual page.