Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:21:38 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Message-ID: <199602162321.BAA28096@dog.farm.org>
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Mike Pritchard (mpp@mpp.minn.net) wrote:
> > Pkg_manage enhancements to show what has been installed. I
> > typically install about 90% of the packages and it's a real pain
> > to remember what's been installed. And don't mention that useless
> > unsorted list on the right.
> "ls /var/db/pkg" maybe?
what I find really nice of Caldera's (oh, yes, RedHat's) package
manager is switch to lookup any file in all packages, then show
this package's information, filelist, whatever.
(e.g.: rpm -qlf `which ypcat` shows list of all NIS bits out there)
I can
% pkg_info -L `grep this/file /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS | cut -d/ -f5`,
but I guess an option to pkg_info can be helpful for other folks ;-)
(rpm maintains a _binary_ (ick!) database of packages and files; FreeBSD's
approach is better, but you really have to scan all these small file lists).
--
"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie
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