Le Vendredi 9 Mars 2007 03:31, Sebastian Benoit a icrit : > Peter([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2007.03.09 02:56:07 +0000: > > but I have found that if a package is dubiously named (such as "db") then > > it hangs with: > > > > "Ambiguous: db could be db-3.1.17p6 db-4.2.52p8" > > There is nothing dubious about it. There are simply two versions of "db" > available. pkg_add simply does not guess what you want it to do.
I'm sorry. I mistyped. That should have been "ambiguous" instead of "dubious". > You found out whats discribed in the manpage: > > In case of ambiguities, for instance: pkg_add screen (matches > screen-4.02 and screen-4.02-static), pkg_add will error out, unless it > is invoked in interactive mode (option -i). But I did use interactive mode. Later I discovered that when it hangs (like it does) I just need to hit Enter and it continues on as expected. Pedro
