Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:45:45 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c Message-ID: <20000111184544.B22816@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <200001112101.NAA25463@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <26517.947620979@zippy.cdrom.com> <200001112101.NAA25463@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:01:51PM -0800, a little birdie told me that Rodney W. Grimes remarked > > > > Think about it, Jeroen. You're in a directory which is about to be > > wiped out by the act of package deleting the package, a directory > > there is *absolutely no need* to cd into first unless you get your > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > There may be no need, but there is a great speed advantage to cd'ing > to /var/db/pkg and running pkg_delete from there. It's called > filename completion. I do this all the time. And no, it won't > trigger the ``We aren't in Kansas anymore'' message. Indeed. I do this as well. Wasn't there a discussion some time ago about making pkg_delete accept a '/var/db/pkg/package-name-version' argument to allow use of filename completion? Some of those package names are rather convulted and painful to type. Was there ever a 'yes' or 'no' decision on that, or is it just waiting for someone to write patches (yes, maybe I am offering...)? -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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