Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 08:56:17 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg question .... Message-ID: <53E0E281.9030306@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140805131910.GA72939@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <53E0D2B7.9060402@hiwaay.net> <20140805131910.GA72939@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On 08/05/14 08:19, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 07:48:55AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> .... is there a way to get pkg to list all available packages for
>> installation ? 'yum -y list available' works nicely under RH linux
>> distros ....
> pkg rquery -a '%n-%v'
>
> Assuming you have the FreeBSD repo set up in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf:
>
> FreeBSD: {
> url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
> mirror_type: "srv",
> enabled: yes
> }
>
>> Also, I type in 'pkg info' & all I get back is 'pkg-1.3.3
>> Package manager' .... I expected a list of all packages installed so far
>> (just the base install for me at the moment) ....
> The base install doesn't exist in packages. Packages are only for ports.
> So it shows exactly what it should.
>
> Roland
OK, very well. I just installed XFCE, rxvt, & samba 3.6, When I do an
'apropos xfce', is says 'xfce: nothing appropriate' .... I did a
'makewhatis -av' & still nothing .... surely there are some man pages ?!?!?!
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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