Thanks Darren,
Yes I did get them confused, being somewhat new to the pkg
software distro system and the packages themselves how do I check the
software version? I did not see a switch in the man page to even
allow me to check it. -v, which I would have thought to echo a banner
with version information, causes it to log more verbosely. Useful for
troubleshooting, not for versioning. Give me some tools for my bag,
thanks Darren.
Wade B
On 8/23/06, Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PPS,
> The version says it is, in fact, 3.7_2.
>
> Fetching
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-rele
> ase/Latest/openbgpd.tbz...
> Done.
> pkg_add: package 'openbgpd-3.7_2' or its older version
> already installed
You're confusing the software version with FreeBSD's package version. You
can assume from that package version that you are running openbpgd 3.7.
One might wonder, with 3.9 being the latest release of openbgpd, why you
would run that version. The answer is that it's probably the latest version
freebsd has built a port for. Shame.
Apps like that, I typically use them on OpenBSD to take advantage of the
latest and greatest code and avoid problems stemming from them having to be
ported to another OS [1]. As the apps are generally "young", there's a lot
of development activity on them so that 3.7 version is almost "ancient" in
comparison.
DS
[1] For example, why doesn't carp(4) on FreeBSD support the 'carpdev'
parameter?
--
Wade B
"Integrity is more important than perception management"
"There are two kinds of pain, the pain of change and the pain of never changing"
