Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:45:40 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> To: "David Fleck" <david.fleck@mchsi.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: RE: ports & package names changing? Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEKDFCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20031231092509.D21893@grond.sourballs.org>
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Yes, but doing it that way as example, entering 'apache' would download apache13 when I really wanted apache20. That logic does not follow through, it's only valid for single versions of an package. -----Original Message----- From: dcf@grond.sourballs.org [mailto:dcf@grond.sourballs.org]On Behalf Of David Fleck Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:30 AM To: fbsd_user Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG Subject: RE: ports & package names changing? On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote: > 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. If you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-u sing.html it says, about half way down the page: "Note that in the example above lsof is used instead of lsof-4.56.4. When the remote fetching feature is used, the version number of the package must be removed. pkg_add(1) will automatically fetch the latest version of the application." Can you give a concrete example of what the handbook says, and how following the steps causes a problem? I'm not seeing it, it's working fine for me. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com
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