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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:29:24 -0500
From:      "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        "Andriy Gapon" <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        kde@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg_info confusion (and configure.kde3)
Message-ID:  <28283d910901150529xfac5a13k6f81d199ee2f48d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <496F360E.1000508@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <496F360E.1000508@icyb.net.ua>

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:

>
> I am reading pkg_info(1), I see that pkg_info can be executed without
> any options/arguments, but the man page doesn't tell what happens in
> this case.
>
> In practice I see that configure.kde3 executes pkg_info in the above
> fashion (after printing "Looking for installed modules.") and what I
> observe is that pkg_info is examining all package files found in
> /var/packages. This takes quite long, obviously:
>
>
>    0 61827 28318   0   8  0  5992  2892 wait   S+J   p5    0:00.12
> /usr/sbin/pkg_info
>    0 62162 61827   0   8  0  3492  1108 wait   S+J   p5    0:00.00 sh
> -c /usr/bin/tar -xp -j -f '/var/packages/All/curl-7.18.0.tbz' '+*'
>
> I am not sure if this is default behavior of pkg_info or it is somehow
> affected by environment. I run portupgrade -p and also have PACKAGES set
> to /var/packages.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
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pkg_info run without args is the default way to run pkg_info it just prints
out all packages/ports installed



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