pkg_info: package files checked before installed packages

[Florent Thoumie]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Andriy Gapon<avg at 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?

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer