RE: ports & package names changing?

From: fbsd_user (fbsd_user_at_a1poweruser.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@apropo.ro>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:36:06 -0500

    Why change the book when the whole population of the 4.9 users out
    there have a broken function.
    This is impacting the whole installed community and in my book is an
    problem of the highest severity.

    There is nothing wrong with the handbook document, the problem is
    who ever is building
    the FTP servers has made an mistake and there is an very easy
    solution to correct
    the problem now.

    Populating the Latest directory with the correct contents from the
    'all' directory
    will correct the problem for all the existing uses base without them
    having to do anything.

    I do not understand why you want to take the long way around the
    bilberry bush to
    correct a problem that has such an severe impact of the 4.9
    installed community,
    when the simple solution is staring you in the face?

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu [mailto:itetcu@apropo.ro]
    Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:41 AM
    To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com
    Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG
    Subject: Re: ports & package names changing?

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:30:45 -0500
    "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> wrote:

    > Your missing the whole point.
    >
    > The FBSD handbook says to use
    > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html to find port and package
    > names and it only shows the names with versions suffix appended
    to
    > the names.
    > Pkg_add -r points to directory location with out names with
    > versions suffix appended.
    >
    > >From user view point, pkg_add -r does not work because user is
    > entering name with version suffix appended as they are led to
    > believe is the correct name as instructed by the FBSD handbook.
    >
    > The user doesn't know about or cares about what 'Latest' contains.
    > All they know is, they can not get pkg_add to work as instructed
    by
    > the handbook.
    >
    > That's the big problem.
    >
    > The 'Latest' category needs to be populated with names having the
    > version suffix appended.

    Would be easier and not-breaking a lot of things if you would submit
    a
    patch for that sections of the handbook that clarifies this ? 

    --
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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