Suggesting PKGNG translation shim for pkg_info

[Stochastix]

Before I switched my test box to PKGNG, I culled my installed packages using some scripts based on pkg_info. There doesn't seem to be any good reason why these scripts should now break: I'm sure the new pkg query could be shimmed to provide the same results in the same format without too much difficulty. Wouldn't such a shim eliminate one more small irritation for people making this transition? One script I used was depends.pl which does call pkg_info and no longer works. Maybe this isn't so common as pkg_cutleaves still works for listing leaf nodes.

Just a thought.

 

[SirDice]

Have you tried pkg-info(8) instead of pkg-query(8)? [*]

ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves was removed from ports some time ago. For PKGNG try ports-mgmt/pkg-rmleaf instead.

[*] for some reason the FreeBSD manual browser doesn't have them. They should exist on your system though.

 

[kpa]

Have you tried pkg-info(8) instead of pkg-qeury(8)? [*]

ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves was removed from ports some time ago. For PKGNG try ports-mgmt/pkg-rmleaves instead.

Not true:

http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves/

 

[SirDice]

Funny, I googled it and it gave me sysutils/pkg_cutleaves. Looking at it again it's from before the port-mgmt category existed. Oops.

You're correct, ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves still exists. And the reason it apparently "still works" is because it's been updated to work with PKGNG.

Add patches to make pkg_cutleaves compatible with pkgng, conditional
on WITH_PKGNG being defined.