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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:47:43 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        pfg@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool
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On 29 Dec 2011 21:36, "Bruce Cran" <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 29/12/2011 21:30, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> Nah, pkg_add -r works and grabs anything you need. Try it with something
monstrous (like gcc...)
>
>
> But then you have to know the exact name of the package, which isn't
always obvious.

If an educated guess doesn't work...

make -C /usr/ports/category/name -V PKGNAME will get you the package name.

Chris



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