Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:38:51 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_info: package files checked before installed packages Message-ID: <4970B81B.906@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <497082F3.2080606@icyb.net.ua> References: <497082F3.2080606@icyb.net.ua>
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on 16/01/2009 14:52 Andriy Gapon said the following: > [people who "touched" pkg_info recently are CC-ed] > > Please see a prior discussion here: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?496F360E.1000508 > and especially this post: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?7d6fde3d0901152330p32c51b64i212c660c0aaeb04c > > So it is obvious from code in usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c, > function pkg_do() that if for a given name there is both a package file > in a defined packages directory and also an installed package, then > pkg_info would work on the package file. Additional info - this issue manifests itself if PKG_PATH env var points to a directory with (full of) packages. Apparently portupgrade sets it so (maybe -p option is needed for that). > I do not think that this is either obvious/intuitive or even correct. > At the very list there should be an option to control this behavior. > > I have a system where I keep package files for all installed/built > packages and pkg_info acts very nasty there, especially when working on > all packages. > -- Andriy Gapon
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