Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:29:50 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: RE: ports & package names changing? Message-ID: <20031231092509.D21893@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEJKFCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEJKFCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote: > The FBSD handbook says to use > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html to find port and package > names and it only shows the names with versions suffix appended to > the names. > Pkg_add -r points to directory location with out names with > versions suffix appended. > > >From user view point, pkg_add -r does not work because user is > entering name with version suffix appended as they are led to > believe is the correct name as instructed by the FBSD handbook. If you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html it says, about half way down the page: "Note that in the example above lsof is used instead of lsof-4.56.4. When the remote fetching feature is used, the version number of the package must be removed. pkg_add(1) will automatically fetch the latest version of the application." Can you give a concrete example of what the handbook says, and how following the steps causes a problem? I'm not seeing it, it's working fine for me. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com
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