Peter Tribble wrote: > Hi, > > There's an undocumented feature in pkgchk, as reported > in bug 4762083, at: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4762083 > > pkgchk -l -p "/usr/bin/lo*" > > The bug report recommends it either be removed or > supported sanely. My own view would be to remove > it, as it's undocumented, doesn't work right, and > overlaps with functionality provided by the -P > option (which wasn't present at the time the bug > was filed). Removing it also helps (possibly > significantly) performance, and makes the code > simpler. > > One possibility would be to enhance -P to support > regular expressions. That seems a neater way to > address the problem, and actually adds functionality. > > Thoughts, anyone? >
Sounds like a fine idea to me. I might actually start using pkgchk if it took regular expressions ;-) Dave
