The following reply was made to PR pkg/37296; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: joerg@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/37296 (pkg_info -X doesn't work on Linux)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:11:02 +0200

 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/37296; it has been noted by GNATS.
 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/37296 (pkg_info -X doesn't work on Linux)
 > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:27:32 +0100
 
 >  On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:30:02PM +0000, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
  >>  These packages fail too.
 >  
 >  OK, pkg_info -X -v fails, but pkg_info -X alone still works fine.
 >  I'll take a look why -v breaks.
 
 pkg_info fails on Linux, see below.
 NetBSD version seems to work (But with -v flag it fails also).
 
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# /usr/pkg_pbulk/sbin/pkg_info p4pr-20010504.tbz ssync-1.6.tbz 
 Information for p4pr-20010504.tbz:
 
 Comment:
 Perforce file annotation with change, revision, and branch
 
 Requires:
 p4-[0-9]*
 p4-[0-9]*
 perl>=5.0
 
 Description:
 p4pr produces a file from the Perforce depot with each line annotated
 with the change, revision, and branch from which it came. It takes
 its time, but the output is invaluable.
 
 
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# echo $?
 1
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# uname -a
 Linux pkgsrc-0 2.6.18-5-vserver-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 04:29:47 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# /usr/pkg_pbulk/sbin/pkg_info -X p4pr-20010504.tbz ssync-1.6.tbz 
 PKGNAME=p4pr-20010504
 DEPENDS=p4-[0-9]*
 DEPENDS=p4-[0-9]*
 DEPENDS=perl>=5.0
 COMMENT=Perforce file annotation with change, revision, and branch
 SIZE_PKG=5610
 BUILD_DATE=2007-11-12 20:33:12 +0200
 CATEGORIES=devel scm
 LICENSE=
 MACHINE_ARCH=i386
 OPSYS=Linux
 OS_VERSION=2.6.18
 PKGPATH=devel/p4pr
 PKGTOOLS_VERSION=20070916
 FILE_NAME=p4pr-20010504.tbz
 FILE_SIZE=3957
 DESCRIPTION=p4pr produces a file from the Perforce depot with each line annotated
 DESCRIPTION=with the change, revision, and branch from which it came. It takes
 DESCRIPTION=its time, but the output is invaluable.
 
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# echo $?
 1
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# md5sum p4pr-20010504.tbz ssync-1.6.tbz
 369f3edf172924fce7edcc76a5bd14a0  p4pr-20010504.tbz
 2cc9a37b31ceea50744faf63de69acff  ssync-1.6.tbz
 root@pkgsrc-0:/srv/pkgsrc_bin/Debian/All# 
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.