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To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Pkg_info and friends 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 95 00:52:23 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:04:20 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Where will pkg_info take its information if not in /var/db/pkg ? It should
> first look into the db directory and take the information elsewhere if the
> package is not installed. You can't force people to keep tarballs around
> when they've been installed. Or am I missing something ?

That was the bug I was referring to - THAT part should work.  Go grab
the very latest pkg_install suite (I _just_ fixed it) and try again..

Thanks!
					Jordan