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names of installed packages; - add new `-G' option to disable glob matching and revert to previous behaviour (I have no idea why this could be necessary, though); - add a new `-x' option, which instructs pkg_info(1) to treat supplied arguments as a regular expressions. For example: $ pkg_info foo\* - displays information about all packages whose names start from foo $ pkg_info -G foo\*-1.1 - displays information about package named "foo*-1.1" $ pkg_info -x ^foo.\* - displays information about all packages whose names start from foo Original idea submitted by: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> (bin/24695) Reviewed by: jkh, roam Approved by: jkh
This is the pkg_install suite of tools for doing maintainance of software "packages". More documentation is available in the man pages for each individual command. This code was written by Jordan Hubbard for FreeBSD, snatched and mildly reshaped by John Kohl in NetBSD and the changes taken back into FreeBSD again by Jordan, who then proceeded to add another couple of dozen features on top. Whee! :-)