Thank you Bret. I can see that now after Aaron's comments and yours. cheers,
Song On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Bret S. Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:27:39AM +0100, Song Li wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I am really a newbie on OpenBSD. So my question might look stupid to you. >> >> I am using the current release 4.6 installed from the file >> install46.iso on ftp://openbsd.ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/i386/ >> >> Have anyone encountered any problem using pkg_info, pkg_add, etc.? >> They do not seem working to me. >> >> Take a simplest example, when I checked pkg_info, the man page says: >> ... >> -A Show information for all currently installed packages, >> including internal packages >> ... >> but when I typed "pkg_info -A", it does not return anything. Just >> silently back to the commond line prompt. Similarly, "-a" does not >> work either. >> >> >> I also tryed "pkg_info man46.tgz", "pkg_info -L man46.tgz" and none of >> them gave me any response. (with man46.tgz in the current directory) > > Base tarballs are not managed with the pkg_* tools. I can see why you > made that assumption, but your assumption is incorrect; pkg_* only > deals with precompiled 3rd-party software.
