Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:55:53 -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: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEKEFCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20031231092509.D21893@grond.sourballs.org>
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This thread is not intended to point fingers at any one or start an flame war. Just trying to point out problem and get some kind of feedback from the list of their thought on the subject. -----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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