Hello, I am running OpenBSD in a virtualbox because I am taking a deeper look into it.
I was looking for a list of ports packages and read the man page pkg_info(1). That man page it states, "When browsing through uninstalled packages, running pkg_info -I *.tgz will report a summary line for each package [...]" Note the capital eye 'I'. It says so in the VMs man page as well as at https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_info (All Sections ; All Architectures ; OpenBSD-current) (Timestamp: approx. Fri 24 Jan 2020 10:05:00 PM UTC) When I run the command # pkg_info -I *.tgz I get the result Invalid spec: *.tgz Invalid spec: *.tgz # <End of result> If I run # pkg_info -l *.tgz # NOTE the little ell instead of capital eye I get something that looks like the list the man page describes. Two columns, first being package name and second being a short one line description. If I run # pkg_info -I I get the result pkg_info: Missing package name(s) Usage: <...> Searching for "openbsd pkg_info -I" with duckduckgo just presented the OpenBSD FAQ and Manual Pages and something about a pkg_info -Q bug. I read the man page's descriptions for options -I and -l and it seems to me that -I (capital eye) *should* work the way the man page exemplifies its use or maybe even without an argument. Maybe I am misinterpreting the descriptions. I do not quite understand why requesting the list of packages including a short description works with -l (small ell), which takes a string as an argument. What other information can I provide to clarify where the problem lies? (It may be the man page, pkg_info, "layer 8" or a combination of these three factors.) # uname -a OpenBSD <host> 6.6 GENERIC#4 amd64 Thank you for your time, Andrew Easton
