Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 19:08:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/178887: Desired pkgng metadata Message-ID: <201305232308.r4NN84h7002516@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <201305232310.r4NNA2hP079226@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 178887 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Desired pkgng metadata >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu May 23 23:10:01 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Garrett Wollman >Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory >Environment: System: FreeBSD khavrinen.csail.mit.edu 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #15 r245182: Tue Jan 8 18:09:56 EST 2013 wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KHAVRINEN amd64 >Description: pkg(8) doesn't keep track of two bits of information that I consider fairly important: 1) Which repository the package was obtained from 2) When the package was installed Under the old packaging system, I often ran "ls -lrt /var/db/pkg" to figure out which things hadn't been rebuilt/reinstalled that perhaps should be. Particularly with pkgng supporting multiple repositories, it may be important to identify which repository provided a particular package (e.g., if one is compromised). >How-To-Repeat: man pkg-info man pkg-query pkg info -R somepackage >Fix: Unknown >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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