From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 07:46:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511DC16A4CF for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AFD43D5F for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:45:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([67.20.101.103]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20031231154541.BWOI14686.mta10.adelphia.net@barbish>; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:45:41 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" To: "David Fleck" Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:45:40 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20031231092509.D21893@grond.sourballs.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: RE: ports & package names changing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:46:11 -0000 Yes, but doing it that way as example, entering 'apache' would download apache13 when I really wanted apache20. That logic does not follow through, it's only valid for single versions of an package. -----Original Message----- From: dcf@grond.sourballs.org [mailto:dcf@grond.sourballs.org]On Behalf Of David Fleck Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:30 AM To: fbsd_user Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG Subject: RE: ports & package names changing? 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-u sing.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