SUMMARY: Querying files installed by pkgadd

From: Phil Scarr <prscarr_at_greymouser.com>
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 15:37:40 EDT
Once again, this list responds in record time...  12 minutes from
initial posting!

My original problem:

> So can the pkg* tools (pkginfo, pkgadd, pkgrm) provide the same
> functionality?  I spend time reading the pkginfo man page and it doesn't
> seem like there is a way to do it with that tool.

> Baring a tool, is there a way to get access to the pkg database?  I've
> poked around /var/sadm but could find nothing useful.

The wise respond:

----- Forwarded message from Dan Astoorian <djast@cs.toronto.edu> -----

From: Dan Astoorian <djast@cs.toronto.edu>

On Mon, 07 May 2001 15:09:27 EDT, Phil Scarr writes:
> 
> So can the pkg* tools (pkginfo, pkgadd, pkgrm) provide the same
> functionality?  I spend time reading the pkginfo man page and it doesn't
> seem like there is a way to do it with that tool.

Do you know about pkgchk?

> Baring a tool, is there a way to get access to the pkg database?  I've
> poked around /var/sadm but could find nothing useful.

/var/sadm/install/contents is the most obviously useful file.


----- End forwarded message -----
----- Forwarded message from "Becher, Jim" <Jim.Becher@CoreExpress.net> -----

From: "Becher, Jim" <Jim.Becher@CoreExpress.net>

pkgchk -l <package>

It's not exactly the same as rpm -q -l <RPM>...


-jim

----- End forwarded message -----

Even though there is no tool to do the reverse query (from file to
package), given the contents file, I've written a little shell script
that gives me all the functionality I need.

Thanks again!

	-Phil

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