RE: ports & package names changing?

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

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    To: "David Fleck" <david.fleck@mchsi.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:55:53 -0500

    This thread is not intended to point fingers at any one or start an
    flame war.
    Just trying to point out problem and get some kind of feedback from
    the
    list of their thought on the subject.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: dcf@grond.sourballs.org [mailto:dcf@grond.sourballs.org]On
    Behalf Of David Fleck
    Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:30 AM
    To: fbsd_user
    Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG
    Subject: RE: ports & package names changing?

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote:
    > 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.

    If you read
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-u
    sing.html
     it says, about half way down the page:

    "Note that in the example above lsof is used instead of lsof-4.56.4.
    When
    the remote fetching feature is used, the version number of the
    package
    must be removed. pkg_add(1) will automatically fetch the latest
    version of
    the application."

    Can you give a concrete example of what the handbook says, and how
    following the steps causes a problem? I'm not seeing it, it's
    working
    fine for me. 

    --
David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com
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