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.

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c
index 9a93253..e09abad 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #ifndef lint
-static const char *rcsid = "$Id: perform.c,v 1.15 1995/05/10 23:00:06 jkh Exp $";
+static const char *rcsid = "$Id: perform.c,v 1.16 1995/05/30 03:49:59 rgrimes Exp $";
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ pkg_do(char *pkg)
 	    isTMP = TRUE;
 	}
     }
-    else if (fexists(pkg)) {
+    else if (fexists(pkg) && isfile(pkg)) {
 	int len;
 
 	if (*pkg != '/') {
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;
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/lib.h b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/lib.h
index 61be709..4f80cee 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/lib.h
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/lib.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: lib.h,v 1.15 1995/04/22 13:58:43 jkh Exp $ */
+/* $Id: lib.h,v 1.16 1995/04/26 15:08:22 jkh Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * FreeBSD install - a package for the installation and maintainance
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ char		*basename_of(char *);
 /* File */
 Boolean		fexists(char *);
 Boolean		isdir(char *);
+Boolean         isfile(char *);
 Boolean		isempty(char *);
 Boolean		isURL(char *);
 char		*fileGetURL(char *);