On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:54:22AM +0900, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote:
> From: Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Output change of 'pkg info' after 1.2.
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:24:09 +0100
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> >> On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:13:38 +0900 (JST)
> >> Yasuhiro KIMURA <y...@utahime.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I noticed that output of 'pkg info' changed after version 1.2.
> >> > 
> >> > If I remember correctly, 1.1.x behaved as following:
> >> > 
> >> > - 'pkg info -q pkg-name' outputs package name with version.
> >> > - 'pkg info pkg-name' outputs package name with version, and comment.
> >> > - 'pkg info -f pkg-name' outputs full information.
> >> > 
> >> > But 1.2.1 works as following:
> >> > 
> >> > - 'pkg info -q pkg-name' outputs nothing.
> >> > - Both 'pkg info pkg-name' and 'pkg info -f pkg-name' outputs full
> >> >   information. 
> >> 
> >> Just tested, pkg 1.1.4 vs. 1.2.1
> >> 
> >> pkg info -q pkg-name is identical on both, but "-f" vs no parameter
> >> definitely changed and this seems like a bug to me.
> >> 
> > 
> > It is not a bug, but intended as requested by a lot of users. To mimic the
> > pkg_info behaviour.
> > 
> > pkg info -q shows nothing on purpose as well as pkg info -q is used by the
> > scripts like portmaster or by the ports tree and only the return value is
> > checked
> > 0 means something was found 1 means nothing was found.
> 
> Thank you for explanation.
> 
> Then I have one question. Is there any way to get same output as 
> 'pkg info pkg-name' of 1.1.x? I tried some combination of options but
> could not find proper one.
> 
only pkg query now.
pkg query "%n-%v" and to simply your life you could probably have in your
pkg.conf (since pkg 1.2)
alias: {
  whatis : "query '%n-%v'"
}


$ pkg whatis pkgconf
pkgconf-0.9.3

etc.

I should create some kind of polling to see what do people expect before fixing
a feature request, because sometime onces request defeats what others expects.

regards,
Bapt

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