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Subject: Re: Possible typo - portsnap
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Alexander Lamaison wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html
> 
> At the bottom of this page part of the command is given as 
>     pkg_version -vIL=
> but apparently pkg_version has no -I option.
> 
> HTH
> Alex
> 

Hello Alex,

First of all thank you for taking the time to report this and using
FreeBSD, we really appriciate the time and effort taken.

However, pkg_version has the -I option which does the following:

     -I      Use only the index file for determining if a package is out of
             date.  This is much faster than using the version number from a
             port's Makefile, at the expense of potentially giving an incor-
             rect result if the index file is out of date.


at least on my rather recent 6-STABLE :-)

When I run pkg_version -vIL= i get the response that one would
expect. Are you sure you are running a recent version of the
application? Can you share some details with us to see what the
problem might be?

Thanks!

Cheers
remko

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Kind regards,

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