[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004835]: pkgutil could display catalog meta data

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4835 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4835
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-09-27 17:55 CEST
Last Modified:              2011-09-27 17:55 CEST
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Summary:                    pkgutil could display catalog meta data
Description: 
Now that we are integrating more meta data in the catalog (timestamp,
release name, etc.) it would be helpful to have an option for pkgutil to
display this metadata via e.g.

  pkgutil --listcat
  pkgutil --showcat
  pkgutil --catinfo

to spare the need to manually look it up in the catalog files. Example
output:

* http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/unstable
  - Generated: foo
  - Release name: bla

* http://interal/overlay
  - Generated: foo
  - Release name: bla  

This could be amended with further information, e.g. number of packages in
the catalog and whether a signature is present or not (and if signed, by
whom). 
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