Strange pkg_info output

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Wed May 26 08:58:53 PDT 2004


At 5:41 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>At 4:49 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>>If you install perl from ports, you apparently get
>>>bsdpan included.
>>
>>Hmm.  How would I know if I had it?
>>
>>I don't seem to have any port with the letters 'pan' in it.
>>and `locate bsdpan' does not find anything.  I guess I don't
>>really know what I should be looking for...
>
>How about this:
>
>22-sec% cat /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/distinfo
>MD5 (perl-5.8.2.tar.gz) = fa356b74f99166b63a68a322c3c68f91
>SIZE (perl-5.8.2.tar.gz) = 11896287
>MD5 (BSDPAN-5.8.0_1.tar.gz) = af9f075e073b14714cfeb8a7582013e7
>SIZE (BSDPAN-5.8.0_1.tar.gz) = 6338
>
>...?  :-)

Ugh.  When I tried grepping /var/db/pkg/*/*, I only looked for a
lowercase 'bsdpan'.  Yes, I do have it installed.  thanks.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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