Re: pkg_info(1) and wildcards / by-file listenings

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:27:37PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> >         So that would be changing the current behaviour? I have no
> >         objections to that, but it might be nice if pkgsrc provided
> >         a convenient way to list a subset of installed packages in
> >         a 'one line per package' form.
>
> No, I don't want to change the way -e or -E behave. One possible change
> is:
>         pkg_info -e xtrans -e xsnow
>         xtrans-1.2.2
>         xsnow-1.42nb2
>
> instead of the current
>         pkg_info -e xtrans -e xsnow
>         xsnow-1.42nb2
>
> ...but of course, the question remains if that output should be sorted
> as well.

        Sorry - I was unclear. You stated that you wanted wildcards
        on -e to be an error, though it currently works
        eg: 'pkg_info -e lib\*'

        Also, would 'pkg_info -e xtrans xsnow' not make sense?

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