Date: 07 Feb 2001 07:09:20 +0100 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> Subject: Re: Request for comments [Fwd: bin/24695: [patch] pkg_info: prefix search for a package] Message-ID: <1ytb2fe7.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Maxim Sobolev's message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:34:53 %2B0200" References: <3A7EBA0D.A293FF21@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > What do ppl think about proposed feature? I personally think that at least > prefix part could be solved easily with appropriate autocompletion rule, > however if there is enough interest I could go on and add this feature. would it be possible to make pkg_install enough intelligent to find it's .tgz file in the current directory w/o any options if just the package name is given ? that's may help scripting. here is an example : # ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 95572 Jan 11 08:51 wget-1.6.tgz # pkg_add wget pkg_add: can't find package `wget' # pkg_add wget-1.6 pkg_add: can't find package `wget-1.6' pkg_add -r doesn't solve the problem, since it doesn't search the current directory and directly download/delete the package from the FreeBSD repository. a store option would be apreciable also to automaticaly fetch the requested package but not delete it after install. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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