Re: pkg questions

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 07/16/15 11:55, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> writes:
>
> > 6.1.5 server, 2 questions pop up: Where is my pkg_install.conf file ?
> > I.e., man page entry, but no file
> Not a bug, because empty files aren't needed, more or less.   It's
> /usr/pkg/etc/pkg_install.conf.   To figure that out:
>
> $ ktrace pkg_add
> $ kdump | egrep NAMI
>
> ktrace is highly useful to figure out what's going on, and casual use is
> not hard.
>
> > Also, is there a pkg_* command to provide a list of either all
> > available pkgs for installation, or all available uninstalled pkgs ?
> > Also, how about upgrades for any installed pkgs ?
> See pkgin and nih, both in pkgsrc.  They do similar things, and pkgin
> seems to have more users.   Once you download the binary pkg from
> netbsd.org and pkg_add it, you can read its docs and run it.

I don't find pkgin or nih on my system:

4256EE1 # which pkgin
4256EE1 # which pkg_in
4256EE1 # which nih
4256EE1 # uname -a
NetBSD 4256EE1.CFD.COM 6.1.5 NetBSD 6.1.5 (GENERIC) amd64
4256EE1 #

Pilot error ?

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