On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I like FreeBSD's "pkg_add -r" which basically sets PKG_PATH to include the
> system's uname -m and uname -r to fetch from FreeBSD's ftp server. (And
> you don't need to set any version in the package name because, I believe,
> of symlinks on their FTP server.)

I guess it wouldn't be hard to implement that, making -r set PKG_PATH to
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/\
    `uname -r | sed 's@\.\([0-9]*\)[\._].*@\.\1@'`/`uname -p`
(That's taken from pkgsrc/Packages.txt, Appendix B), then append "/All/"
plus the given pkg name.


> Also, with OpenBSD and FreeBSD you should use full file names or full
> package names including the version number with the pkg_* tools, or you
> have to use a wildcard like "\*". (NetBSD's is a little easier.)

Oh, they support wildcards now? They didn't when I added wildcard support
to pkg*. I haven't followed FreeBSD or OpenBSD btw.


 - Hubert

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