Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:47:23 -0400 From: Dave Dunaway <bela@nivek.org> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> Cc: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>, Alex Kwan <alexkwan@pacific.net.hk>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to verify which packages are installed Message-ID: <20000609094723.L38859@nivek.org> In-Reply-To: <200006091337.IAA63544@freeside.fc.net>; from jdunham@fc.net on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:37:55AM -0500 References: <20000609114029.O81376@draenor.org> <200006091337.IAA63544@freeside.fc.net>
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Ah, yeah that's since /var/db/pkg is a directory. Just do a 'cd /var/db/pkg/ && pkg_info * | more' and that will get you a super sexy output like.... freetype-1.2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine ja-jcode.pl-2.10 Perl library for Japanese character code conversion ja-p5-jcode.pl-2.10 Perl5 library for Japanese character code conversion perlftlib-1.2 libraries to use the FreeType library from the perl language [snip of a lot of stuff...] Don't ask why I have ja-* ... I must have been drunk and "out of control" one night in /usr/ports... > > Take a look in /var/db/pkg to see which packages you have installed. :) > > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:54:04PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > > > How to verify that which packages and their version are already > > > installed in the FreeBSD system? > > /var/db/pkg isn't a text file. Wouldn't pkg_info be simpler and easier to > read? -- Dave. bela@nivek.org Head Trauma Victim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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