I was waiting for snapshots to come up with the new stuff, but it
looks like amd64 will be a bit late.  Someone is still hiking in
the mountains...


A week ago or so, I committed support for some disambiguating
filter in pkg_add.

This means that you can now simply install packages for ports which
have several versions in the tree without having to know the exact
version.

For instance,

pkg_add python%2.7
will install a python from the lang/python/2.7 branch.


e.g., stem%branch  takes all packages that match stem-* and filters them
according to a word in their pkgpath, e.g., you can also use it for, say
postfix%stable  and other things.


This is not really a change, but I've checked where I put %m and stuff
support, it works in pkg.conf, it also works in PKG_PATH and on the
command-line.

This means that you can, for instance, write something like
pkg_add http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/%m/tcl%8.5
and this will grab tcl on the 8.5 branch from the "appropriate"
directory of the froggie server, depending on your OpenBSD version
and architecture.

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