On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:13:37PM +0200, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:15:05AM +0100, Antonio Bibiano wrote: > > Hello, > > I just wanted to add to this thread that I incurred in the same > > issue on a fresh 6.6 installation. > > I also tried with a different mirror in /etc/installurl and receive > > the same partial response from pkg_info -Q. > > What makes it even more odd is that pkg_add finds the correct package. > > Thanks Antonio for double-checking this! I have also tested it on a > fresh installation at the time and got the same results. > > Maybe the behaviour is undefined if PKG_PATH is not set, which is fine > by me. But still, it's quite puzzling and against the principle of > least surprise.
It's one of those little things that is well known, but that won't change until I have time to look at it, and it's definitely not a high priority problem right now.
