Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:24:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net> To: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, swb@grasslake.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: package maintenance (Re: ucd-snmp) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005131823490.73033-100000@marius.org> In-Reply-To: <84itwiu75a.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se>
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Here's zsh completions for it: compctl -g '/var/db/pkg/*(/:t)' pkg_delete pkg_info -- Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net> Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator Alpha1 Internet <http://www.alpha1.net>; http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0x42C74CBA Quidquid Latine Dictum Sit, Profundum Viditur. On 13 May 2000, Rasmus Kaj wrote: > >>>>> "JKH" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> writes: > > >> Let's take removing Samba as an example: > >> > >> 1. pkg_info | grep -i samba > >> 2. wait for a long time. > >> 3. pkg_delete samba-2.0.6 > > Why not pkg_delete samba<TAB> ? > > JKH> What I don't understand is why the next generation of package hackers > JKH> (and I salute anyone intrepid enough to go hacking on that evil code) > JKH> hasn't just *extended* the current feature set, [...] > > I went the other (also very 'Unix-esque', IMO) way: I let the pkg_* > tools be as they are and extended the shell to make them convinient. > > Here's my tcsh completeion settings for it (since I wrote that, I have > changed to zsh, but I haven't yet rewritten the completions for it) : > > complete pkg_info "p@*@F:/var/db/pkg/@" > complete pkg_delete "p@*@F:/var/db/pkg/@" > complete pkg_checksum "p@*@F:/var/db/pkg/@" > > The last one, pkg_checksum, is a simple perl script which uses > pkg_info to get the checksums for all installed files and checks that > they matches the actual files (I originally wrote it to find the file > I had modified to make jade work for large files, not remembering that > it was mentioned in the pkg_info for jade :-) ). > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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