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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
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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