On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote: > The FBSD handbook says to use > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html to find port and package > names and it only shows the names with versions suffix appended to > the names. > Pkg_add -r points to directory location with out names with > versions suffix appended. > > >From user view point, pkg_add -r does not work because user is > entering name with version suffix appended as they are led to > believe is the correct name as instructed by the FBSD handbook.
If you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html it says, about half way down the page: "Note that in the example above lsof is used instead of lsof-4.56.4. When the remote fetching feature is used, the version number of the package must be removed. pkg_add(1) will automatically fetch the latest version of the application." Can you give a concrete example of what the handbook says, and how following the steps causes a problem? I'm not seeing it, it's working fine for me. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
