From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 05:39:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDC916A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:39:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06FD43D3F for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 9245 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2003 13:39:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 31 Dec 2003 13:39:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:41:19 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Message-Id: <20031231154119.58e95e4c@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: References: <20031231053018.GA2526@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: ports & package names changing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:39:55 -0000 On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:30:45 -0500 "fbsd_user" wrote: > Your missing the whole point. > > The FBSD handbook says to use > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html to find port and package > names and it only shows the names with versions suffix appended to > the names. > Pkg_add -r points to directory location with out names with > versions suffix appended. > > >From user view point, pkg_add -r does not work because user is > entering name with version suffix appended as they are led to > believe is the correct name as instructed by the FBSD handbook. > > The user doesn't know about or cares about what 'Latest' contains. > All they know is, they can not get pkg_add to work as instructed by > the handbook. > > That's the big problem. > > The 'Latest' category needs to be populated with names having the > version suffix appended. Would be easier and not-breaking a lot of things if you would submit a patch for that sections of the handbook that clarifies this ? -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user