On Jan 7, 2008 4:33 PM, Russell Gadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to OpenBSD and I am not sure what is the correct way to find > packages. > > For example I have tried to install the xfce window manager, and at > first I looked at the list of files in the packages list and there were > a lot of files with xfce in the name / description. I looked for one > which said something like "this is the main package for xfce4" so that > installing that and all dependencies would do the job, but couldn't find > such a file. I resorted to looking for xfce in the INDEX and using all > files where this was mentioned, i.e. forming a list with > > grep "xfce" INDEX | cut -d "|" -f 1 | sed 's/$/.tgz/g' > > /tmpdir/xfce4pkglist > > then > pkg_add `cat /tmpdir/xfce4pkglist` > > I realise that for such a package there would be some parts which were > optional, so needed to be separated out, but I thought there must be a > more reliable way to determine which files to include. > > Is there a better way to do this?
I recently added a README.OpenBSD to xfce4-session, this may help you (concerns -current, but may be probably applied to -stable) see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/xfce4/xfce4-session/files/README.OpenBSD?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup And no, there is no meta-package and things like that. Landry
