On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:12:41PM +0530, Vikash Tulsiyan wrote:

> pkgparam is used to find various package parameters.

Yes, I know that.  What parameters are you trying to get, specifically.
What is your goal in getting these parameters?

> Anyways we can still grep it from pkg info.

I'd just as soon you didn't -- it's not intended to be a programmatic
interface.  If we need to provide an interface that isn't there yet, I'd
like to know the scope of what you're trying to do.

> So what we see as two different package installation is actually one. Nice 
> idea to make it backward compatible. However why do they different version 
> numbers for the IPS and SVR4 packaging if they are only one installation?

The version number spaces are different.  pkg(5) needs to be able to define
a new space, and SVr4 package versions should stay the same.

Danek
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