Hi Andrew, Andrew Easton wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:17:20PM +0100:
> I am running OpenBSD in a virtualbox because I am taking a deeper look > into it. > > I was looking for a list of ports packages Depending what you really need, try $ doas pkg_add portslist $ less /usr/local/share/ports-INDEX $ doas pkg_add sqlports $ sqlite3 /usr/local/share/sqlports https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/ > and read the man page pkg_info(1). > > That man page it states, > "When browsing through uninstalled packages, running pkg_info -I *.tgz > will report a summary line for each package [...]" > > Note the capital eye 'I'. > > It says so in the VMs man page as well as at > https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_info > (All Sections ; All Architectures ; OpenBSD-current) > (Timestamp: approx. Fri 24 Jan 2020 10:05:00 PM UTC) > > > When I run the command > > # pkg_info -I *.tgz > > I get the result > > Invalid spec: *.tgz > Invalid spec: *.tgz > # > <End of result> Well, that's less a question about pkg_info(1) but more about the sh(1). In the https://man.openbsd.org/sh.1#Expansion section, look for the paragraph beginning with After field splitting, the shell matches filename patterns. So the above command only makes sense in a directory where you do actually have some packages with file names that match the glob(7) pattern "*.tgz", for example: schwarze@isnote $ cd /usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/ schwarze@isnote $ ls groff* groff-1.22.3p9.tgz groff-1.22.4p2.tgz groff-git-1.22.4p3.tgz groff-1.22.4.tgz groff-1.22.4p3.tgz schwarze@isnote $ pkg_info -D unsigned -I *.tgz | grep groff gpresent-2.3p0.tgz make presentations with groff and PDF gpresent-2.5.tgz make presentations with groff and PDF groff-1.22.3p9.tgz GNU troff typesetter groff-1.22.4.tgz GNU troff typesetter groff-1.22.4p2.tgz GNU troff typesetter groff-1.22.4p3.tgz GNU troff typesetter groff-git-1.22.4p3.tgz GNU troff typesetter ja-groff-1.10_0.99p2.tgz japanese groff > If I run > # pkg_info -l *.tgz # NOTE the little ell instead of capital eye Using -l in this way doesn't really make sense. Look at $ man -O tag=l pkg_info # or https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_info.1#l for what -l does. You don't want to give "*.tgz" as an option argument to -l. > If I run > # pkg_info -I > > I get the result > pkg_info: Missing package name(s) > Usage: <...> Yes. It pays off to read manual pages and error messages closely, at least on OpenBSD. pkg_info(1) says: -I Show the index entry for each package. So with -I, you need to say for which package(s) you want to see index entries. > Searching for "openbsd pkg_info -I" with duckduckgo Don't search the web for OpenBSD documentation that way. Yes, for Linux, it's sometimes hard to get any help without searching the web indiscriminately. But for OpenBSD, everything is supposed to be explained in the manual page of the program you are trying to use, so look there. Random stuff from the web is likely to just confuse you even more. > What other information can I provide to clarify where the problem lies? > (It may be the man page, pkg_info, "layer 8" or a combination of these > three factors.) The information you provided was pretty good, i hope i could help. Yours, Ingo
