Re: pkg_admin usage
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Benny Siegert wrote: I have used command lines such as some_command | xargs pkg_admin set rebuild=YES in the past. Ah. That looks very promising. My experiments with command lines such as pkg_admin set rebuild=YES package1 package2 etc or pkg_admin set rebuild=YES package1,package2, etc were unsuccessful. Thank you -- A test of right and wrong must be the means, one would think, of ascertaining what is right or wrong, and not a consequence of having already ascertained it. J. S. Mill
Re: pkg_admin usage
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:43 AM Bob Bernstein wrote: > > The man page for pkg_admin contains this line: > > set variable=value pkg ... > > Do the three final "..." indicate that if it is desired to set > that variable to that value for more than one package, then can > be named in a whitespace-separated list? Yes. I have used command lines such as some_command | xargs pkg_admin set rebuild=YES in the past. -- Benny
pkg_admin usage
The man page for pkg_admin contains this line: set variable=value pkg ... Do the three final "..." indicate that if it is desired to set that variable to that value for more than one package, then can be named in a whitespace-separated list? Thank you -- A test of right and wrong must be the means, one would think, of ascertaining what is right or wrong, and not a consequence of having already ascertained it. J. S. Mill
