Date: 24 Jan 2004 10:30:22 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Francis Litterio <franl@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_fetch argument syntax question Message-ID: <44wu7he54h.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <86u12ldhaw.fsf@world.std.com> References: <86u12ldhaw.fsf@world.std.com>
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Francis Litterio <franl@world.std.com> writes: > The man page for pkg_fetch says this: > > The following command line arguments are supported: > > pkgname Specify a full pkgname, a pkgname without version > followed by an @, or a full URI. > > But it doesn't say what appending a '@' to the package name means. Some > experimentation doesn't reveal any difference. > > Anyone know what the '@' does? I don't really do perl very well, but it looks like that *forces* the pkgname to be treated as not including the version information. Could be useful in cases where the pkgtools have trouble isolating what the ports system considers to be the version information.
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