Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote:
While poking around, I see that there is a package for a static
version of bash:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org//pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/bash-3.0.16p1-static.tgz
2. For an automated installer, how would the installer know where to
get the proper package? The URL above works for 3.8, but will be wrong
for 3.9. Is there an environment variable or string that the installer
can expand to get the "3.8" or "3.9" portion of the URL? And then, how
does it figure out the exact package filename for the static version of
bash for a OS release it's never seen before? Without a heavy-duty web
search,how would it know that the 3.8 static release of bash was named
bash-3.0.16p1-static.tgz? It'd be nice if the script doesn't immediately
break and need updating when 3.9 comes out.
Try something like this (combine wrapped lines as needed):
$ ftp "ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/packages/$(uname
-m)/bash-*-static.tgz"
$ sudo pkg_add ./bash-*-static.tgz
/Alexander
