On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:14 PM, James Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way to get package >> info for a file not already downloaded or installed without >> such heavy bandwidth (just the package info). > > Look at the -Q option on the pkg_info(1) manpage. >
I think he's asking for how to read package descriptions without downloading everything. But pkg_info has to download the entirety of each package first because a package is a compressed archive file. If you are looking for package descriptions, install the ports tree and read the Makefiles. Also, if you are lazy/not on an OpenBSD box, most of the descriptions are available at http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/. -Nick
