Re: [Pkgutil-users] pkgutil package install/available mismatch

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Rob Ruma<rr...@fa...> wrote:
> This could be a possible bug. pkgutil doesn't report if a package is
> installed if the name of the CSW package doesn't match what it goes by
> from the repo.

Since both compare options (c/C) list package names and not catalog
names, that is what you should provide on the command line. Think of
it as piping to grep.

> [root@sun]# pkgutil -c pkg_update_watch
> package                   installed                 catalog

This would have worked if you had specified pkgupdatewatch.

> [root@sun]# pkgutil -C pkg_update_watch
> package                   installed                 catalog

Even if this matched it would only have shown something if installed
version didn't match catalog version.

> [root@sun]# pkgutil -a pkg_update_watch
> pkg_update_watch     CSWpkgupdatewatch    1.0,REV=2007.04.10
> 4.0 KB

Here it works using catalog name since output contains both package
and catalog names. Again, think of it as a grep.

Actually, all internal work in pkgutil is done with package names.
When you, for example, use catalog names to install something a lookup
has to be done for every one so you lose a few milliseconds. :-) For
this to work I guess I would have to do lookups here as well. Do you
think that would be better?

I could try to fix that if you want it.

-- 
/peter