Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:51:31 +0600 From: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> To: Samy Mahmoudi <samy.mahmoudi@gmail.com> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using pkg in documentation Message-ID: <1F41F6EB-D21F-4D87-9958-07C47EEF9ADD@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFigVTMafvSn-4TE98yF4duya=MOmzrNp13B1EpXVKdvxMkUZg@mail.gmail.com> References: <51F445F4-9F4F-4B64-BFC3-FBCC337A8267@freebsd.org> <CAFigVTMafvSn-4TE98yF4duya=MOmzrNp13B1EpXVKdvxMkUZg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 27 Apr, 2020, at 05:54, Samy Mahmoudi <samy.mahmoudi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What about using the meta-port lang/python ? You could write something like
> the following lines in your documentation:
> PY=`pkg rquery -r FreeBSD "%dn" lang/python | head -n 1 | sed "s/python//"`
> pkg install py${PY}-babel
>
> "-r FreeBSD" can indeed be ommited in a default configuration where the
> user has not configured several repositories. As you cannot guarantee that
> last condition is met, I would suggest not to omit that part.
>
> I hope this will help,
> Samy Mahmoudi
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That’s one possible way of doing it. But we don’t have a meta port for php so it’s not going to work for that. I am looking for a uniform way of doing it.
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