From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 26 0: 1: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6CA14A26 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem11.masternet.it [194.184.65.21]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21610 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 09:00:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990926090211.009e0dd0@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 09:05:20 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: <199909252352.BAA26437@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 26/09/99, you wrote: >The second script is called "pkg_rm"; it can be used to delete >packages like pkg_delete, but you can use arguments in the same >way as for pkg_ls above (i.e. "pkg_rm lynx"). Think of it like >pkg_info | grep | pkg_delete. > >It might more sense to implement these features in pkg_info and >pkg_delete, resprectively, but I don't have the time to do that >(and these scripts work fine, so I have no incentive to bother >with the C sources of pkg_{info,delete}). What about to extend the pkg_delete to use a syntax like : pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/netscape-communicator-4.61/ it can help so much everyone that can automagically complete file/path names with the shell :-) Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message