On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, matthew green wrote:

>    But what if, instead of typing
>
>        pkg_add
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/i386/All/pine-4.33.tgz
>
>    I could just type
>
>        pkg_add http://packages.netbsd.org/pine
>
>    and it would give me the latest version?

You can already use a package name without the version info and it will
get the latest version for you.

> why not just `pkg_add pine' ?  have some config file to stuff where
> to download from...

I am not sure if you are saying that this is possible -- or if you are
suggesting this idea.

You can already do it by setting the environment variable for PKG_PATH to
the semicolon-delimited list of URLs (and CD mounts, et cetera).

This works for me:

$ echo $PKG_PATH
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/i386/All
$ pkg_add xsnow

("pkg_add pine" works to get pine-4.33.tgz.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/