From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 16 16:11:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18392 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18387 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from uucp3.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP id QQadfs01929; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:11:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp3.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:11:03 -0500 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Sat, 17 Feb 96 02:08:22 +0200 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.6.11/dk#3) id BAA28096 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:21:38 +0200 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:21:38 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199602162321.BAA28096@dog.farm.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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