Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:19:43 GMT From: Jo Rhett<jrhett@svcolo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/113393: pkg_add should have a command line option synonmous with PACKAGESITE environment variable Message-ID: <200706052219.l55MJhrr017812@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200706052220.l55MK4Zw010974@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 113393 >Category: ports >Synopsis: pkg_add should have a command line option synonmous with PACKAGESITE environment variable >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 05 22:20:03 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jo Rhett >Release: 6.2 >Organization: Silicon Valley Colocation, Inc. >Environment: FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:41:06 UTC 2007 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: On May 9, 2007, at 5:07 AM, Clement Laforet wrote: pkg_add really needs a command line option instead of only using the environment variables... "pkg_add -r http://my.freebsd-repo.com/packages/All/my_packages-1.0.tbz" works fine ;-) The behavior is not identical. For example, this works only for a single package. /usr/sbin/pkg_add -r http://my.location/packages/{pkgname} This works for multiple packages: export PACKAGESITE=http://my.location/packages/ /usr/sbin/pkg_add -r {pkgname} {pkgname2} Also, the former will not resolve dependancies properly (it alters the path), whereas the latter will. In short, they are not synonymous. A command line option which is synonymous with the environment variable would be very useful in scripts/cfengine/etc. >How-To-Repeat: Try to run a single command which installs multiple packages from a single location. -or- Have the named package need dependancies. >Fix: An option which has the exact same effect as PACKAGESITE environment variable would be very useful, and should be trivial to implement. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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