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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:58:18 +0000
From:      Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Yuet-nan Wong <yuetnanwong128@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: package +MANIFEST file - look inside
Message-ID:  <20200211005818.003bd681@raksha.tavi.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <160165382.1065705.1581379482389@mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:04:42 +0000 (UTC)
Yuet-nan Wong via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Is there a command, or short script that enables the +MANIFEST to be
> examined.=A0 There are cases where we want to review what the scripts
> section of the +MANIFEST contains.=A0 In particular the post-install
> script.
>=20
> What we're trying to achieve is something like
> pkg view scripts post-install -f $OUTPUT
> so we can modify or run it at a better time, like first boot.
>=20
> As a follow-on from this, we would like to use the "files" list to
> set the MAC mls/ settings as a post-install task, so getting the
> first, filename element (of filename:signature,) from the "files"
> list is important. Thank-you.

Assuming a package called (say) xyzzy:

pkg fetch xyzzy
pkg info -R -F xyzzy-1.0.txz (or whatever)

Redirect the output from pkg info to somewhere, and use jq to analyse
it.

Or use: pkg-info --raw-format yaml -F xyzzy-1.0.txz
and then a yaml analyser.



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