[kde-freebsd] pkg_info confusion (and configure.kde3)

[Wesley Shields]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 15/01/2009 15:29 matt donovan said the following:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua
> > <mailto:avg at icyb.net.ua>> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     I am reading pkg_info(1), I see that pkg_info can be executed without
> >     any options/arguments, but the man page doesn't tell what happens in
> >     this case.
> > 
> >     In practice I see that configure.kde3 executes pkg_info in the above
> >     fashion (after printing "Looking for installed modules.") and what I
> >     observe is that pkg_info is examining all package files found in
> >     /var/packages. This takes quite long, obviously:
> > 
> > 
> >        0 61827 28318   0   8  0  5992  2892 wait   S+J   p5    0:00.12
> >     /usr/sbin/pkg_info
> >        0 62162 61827   0   8  0  3492  1108 wait   S+J   p5    0:00.00 sh
> >     -c /usr/bin/tar -xp -j -f '/var/packages/All/curl-7.18.0.tbz' '+*'
> > 
> >     I am not sure if this is default behavior of pkg_info or it is somehow
> >     affected by environment. I run portupgrade -p and also have PACKAGES set
> >     to /var/packages.
> > 
> >     --
> >     Andriy Gapon
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> > 
> > pkg_info run without args is the default way to run pkg_info it just
> > prints out all packages/ports installed
> 
> Ok, but what did make it peek into the package files (as shown in ps axl
> output above)?

The output looks like this:

zsh-4.3.9_4         The Z shell

The second field comes from the +COMMENT file that lives in
/var/db/pkg/foo.

-- WXS