Subject: Re: pkg_add through proxy doenst work
To: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/05/2007 19:04:37
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Michael van Elst wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:47:49PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > > Ideally, pkg_add should be able to retrieve a list of files from
> > > the pkg repository and work on that, instead of interractive ftp
> > > commands. This would give http and proxy support ...
> > 
> > Some of the package repositories have pkg_summary(5) files. Anyone have 
> > tools to use it?
> 
> Anyone have tools to create it? pkg_summary(5) doesn't tell a thing.

pkg_info -X

I will make sure that pkg_summary(5) manual page mentions this.


  Jeremy C. Reed