You can run pkg_info everywhere expect /var/db/pkg directory :-)

Running there you got any kind of strange errors from tar caused
by treating directories as tar files!
Fix it by adding new isfile(name) (check for reg. files) to simple fexists(name) calls.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/file.c b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/file.c
index 1d578d6..55ba9d5 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/file.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/file.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #ifndef lint
-static const char *rcsid = "$Id: file.c,v 1.10 1995/05/30 03:50:05 rgrimes Exp $";
+static const char *rcsid = "$Id: file.c,v 1.11 1995/06/24 10:12:59 asami Exp $";
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ isemptydir(char *fname)
     return FALSE;
 }
 
+Boolean
+isfile(char *fname)
+{
+    struct stat sb;
+    if (stat(fname, &sb) != FAIL && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode))
+	return TRUE;
+    return FALSE;
+}
+
 /* Check to see if file is a file and is empty. If nonexistent or not
    a file, say "it's empty", otherwise return TRUE if zero sized. */
 Boolean
@@ -256,7 +265,7 @@ fileFindByPath(char *fname)
     static char tmp[FILENAME_MAX];
     char *cp;
 
-    if (fexists(fname)) {
+    if (fexists(fname) && isfile(fname)) {
 	strcpy(tmp, fname);
 	return tmp;
     }
@@ -265,7 +274,7 @@ fileFindByPath(char *fname)
 	char *cp2 = strsep(&cp, ":");
 
 	snprintf(tmp, FILENAME_MAX, "%s/%s.tgz", cp2 ? cp2 : cp, fname);
-	if (fexists(tmp))
+	if (fexists(tmp) && isfile(fname))
 	    return tmp;
     }
     return NULL;