Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:21:38 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Message-ID: <199602162321.BAA28096@dog.farm.org>
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Mike Pritchard (mpp@mpp.minn.net) wrote: > > Pkg_manage enhancements to show what has been installed. I > > typically install about 90% of the packages and it's a real pain > > to remember what's been installed. And don't mention that useless > > unsorted list on the right. > "ls /var/db/pkg" maybe? what I find really nice of Caldera's (oh, yes, RedHat's) package manager is switch to lookup any file in all packages, then show this package's information, filelist, whatever. (e.g.: rpm -qlf `which ypcat` shows list of all NIS bits out there) I can % pkg_info -L `grep this/file /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS | cut -d/ -f5`, but I guess an option to pkg_info can be helpful for other folks ;-) (rpm maintains a _binary_ (ick!) database of packages and files; FreeBSD's approach is better, but you really have to scan all these small file lists). -- "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie
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