184566 – add support for `emerge --info <pkg>`

Bug 184566 - add support for `emerge --info <pkg>`

Summary: add support for `emerge --info <pkg>`

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	181949
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Reported:	2007-07-08 04:03 UTC by SpanKY
Modified:	2007-07-08 21:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-07-08 04:03:16 UTC

doing `emerge --info <pkg>` should run the pkg_info() function in the installed ebuild in vdb ... purpose is to query specific information about a package that only that package would be able to glean

for example, sys-libs/glibc would have a function like:
pkg_info() {
    /lib/libc.so.6
}

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-07-08 07:28:41 UTC

This is implemented in svn r7202.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-07-08 21:41:52 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.3_rc7.