From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 13:51:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C9A14C3B for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 416061C25; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:55:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F43382B; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:55:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:55:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jaakko Salomaa , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: <6939.938202872@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and > > some enviromental variables. > > In its current incarnation, that's pretty much true. However, we also > intend to throw feature upon feature request onto his pile until > Jaakko ends up reproducing the Debian package manager for us! :-) Why not just just teach 'pkg_add -r' about regex. It already knows about alternate package site's (PACKAGESITE). I don't see why we need a pkg_get or whatever when pkg_add already has remote (with or without -r) functions, and adds dependencies just fine. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message