Hi,

There's an undocumented feature in pkgchk, as reported
in bug 4762083, at:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4762083

pkgchk -l -p "/usr/bin/lo*"

The bug report recommends it either be removed or
supported sanely. My own view would be to remove
it, as it's undocumented, doesn't work right, and
overlaps with functionality provided by the -P
option (which wasn't present at the time the bug
was filed). Removing it also helps (possibly
significantly) performance, and makes the code
simpler.

One possibility would be to enhance -P to support
regular expressions. That seems a neater way to
address the problem, and actually adds functionality.

Thoughts, anyone?

-- 
-Peter Tribble
L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/



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