On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean
when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it
needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/
as opposed to
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean
when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it
needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/
as opposed to
The reason I am asking all these questions is that I am exploring the
possibility of of writing an apt-get like application for FreeBSD (call
it apt-pkg). Apt-get was written to help out dpkg in Debian. pkg_add
has a lot more features than dpkg but not the update/upgrade features
of apt-get. So
You might want to look at the portupgrade tool in the ports collection.
It supports a '-P' flag that tells it to use packages instead of
compiling from source. It does an excellent job of handling dependencies
(if used correctly), and is very easy to use.
It may be better to create a friendly
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean
when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it
needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/
as opposed to
