Pkg_info corrupt for some packages

[Leslie Jensen]

Aijaz Baig skrev:
> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to find a way to list all the packages on my system and I came
> across this little article and accordingly issued the command *pkg_info |
> grep 'package name' *and I saw the following on the screen instead:
> 
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'Terminal-0.2.8' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'Thunar-0.9.0' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'doodle-0.6.6_1' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'hal-0.5.8.20070909' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'libexo-0.3.4' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'libextractor-0.5.18_2' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'libglade2-2.6.2' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'py25-libxml2-2.6.30' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'rarian-0.6.0_1' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-input-keyboard-1.2.2_1' is
> corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-input-mouse-1.2.3' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-video-ati-6.7.195' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-video-i810-1.6.5_3' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-video-nv-2.1.6' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-video-sunffb-1.1.0_4' is
> corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-video-vesa-1.3.0_1' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xf86-video-vga-4.1.0_1' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xfce-4.4.2' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xfce4-desktop-4.4.2' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xorg-7.3_1' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' is corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xorg-server-1.4_4,1' is corrupt
> 
> How did the pkg_info information for the above mentioned packages became
> corrupt?..Is there to fix this problem?
> 
> Furthermore, how do see the list of all the available(installed) packages on
> my system? It looks like the command above only returned packages for which
> the pkg_info is corrupt.
> 
> Hope to hear from you,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> AIjaz BAig.
> _______________________________________________


Try pkgdb -F


list all installed

pkg_info | more

/Leslie