Subject: Re: tracking freebsd/openbsd pkg_? To: William Allen
Simpson <> From: Jeremy C. Reed <> List: tech-pkg Date:
09/27/2003 15:08:15 On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, William Allen Simpson
wrote:  > Who does the tracking of changes in the original
software? > Has netbsd gone so far in another direction that
it's not feasible?  As far as I have looked at code, many parts
are still similar, but any significant patches would need to
hand applied.  (Also, OpenBSD pkg_* code is different.)  Is
there some feature that you want?  I like FreeBSD's "pkg_add -r"
which basically sets PKG_PATH to include the system's uname -m
and uname -r to fetch from FreeBSD's ftp server. (And you don't
need to set any version in the package name because, I believe,
of symlinks on their FTP server.)  Also, with OpenBSD and
FreeBSD you should use full file names or full package names
including the version number with the pkg_* tools, or you have
to use a wildcard like "\*". (NetBSD's is a little easier.)
Jeremy C. Reed