pkg_info confusion (and configure.kde3)

[Andriy Gapon]

on 15/01/2009 15:29 matt donovan said the following:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua
> <mailto:avg at icyb.net.ua>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I am reading pkg_info(1), I see that pkg_info can be executed without
>     any options/arguments, but the man page doesn't tell what happens in
>     this case.
> 
>     In practice I see that configure.kde3 executes pkg_info in the above
>     fashion (after printing "Looking for installed modules.") and what I
>     observe is that pkg_info is examining all package files found in
>     /var/packages. This takes quite long, obviously:
> 
> 
>        0 61827 28318   0   8  0  5992  2892 wait   S+J   p5    0:00.12
>     /usr/sbin/pkg_info
>        0 62162 61827   0   8  0  3492  1108 wait   S+J   p5    0:00.00 sh
>     -c /usr/bin/tar -xp -j -f '/var/packages/All/curl-7.18.0.tbz' '+*'
> 
>     I am not sure if this is default behavior of pkg_info or it is somehow
>     affected by environment. I run portupgrade -p and also have PACKAGES set
>     to /var/packages.
> 
>     --
>     Andriy Gapon
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> 
> pkg_info run without args is the default way to run pkg_info it just
> prints out all packages/ports installed

Ok, but what did make it peek into the package files (as shown in ps axl
output above)?

-- 
Andriy Gapon