On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Andriy Gapon<a...@icyb.net.ua> wrote: > 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.
Is there a patch addressing this issue? -- Florent Thoumie f...@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"