Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:54:29 -1000 From: "parv/freebsd" <parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-search - Querying the non-default repository (not for installing packages) Message-ID: <CABObuOoCOunuc3jj6tX9vcFUA%2By8Y-bWxRarKP%2BijN7ZJE3oAg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABObuOr6m4=mfe4_49zUVeo6imzJmmVtbg8AYG=j2P_cOvtvgw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABObuOr6m4=mfe4_49zUVeo6imzJmmVtbg8AYG=j2P_cOvtvgw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:36 PM parv/freebsd wrote:
> I use "latest" repository via default "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf" to install
> packages on FreeBSD 13-STABLE. To be able to search quarterly branch via
> "pkg-search -r" (able to supply a reponame even if not active per its
> manual
> page), I copied that file to "/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/quarter.conf" ...
>
> quarter: {
> url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
> mirror_type: "srv",
> signature_type: "fingerprints",
> fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
> enabled: no,
> priority: 0
> }
>
> ... but "pkg search -r quarter curl" does not work when "enabled: no".
>
> Is that not how package search supposed to work for a repository that is not active?
>
>
Turns about I misread the manual page of pkg-search: "active" is actually a
keyword,
missing from "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf". So after I have set to "no" --
"active: no" --
& set "enabled: yes", I was able to do the above query.
On to create find the right URL for 12-RELEASE for a pair of configuration
files ...
- parv
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