Re: Weird pkg_info behavior?

2008-10-05 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/10/5, Philip Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [In the context of pkg_info only downloading the first part of a package to get the info] On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Slim Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I think it would be nice if the packages are dumped not into the present

Re: Weird pkg_info behavior?

2008-10-04 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/10/4, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_info will only download the beginning of the package, since it only needs the packing information, and we're very careful to store it at the beginning. Now, a lot of FTP servers tend to not like abort in the middle of transfer,

Re: Weird pkg_info behavior?

2008-10-01 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/10/1, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-10-01, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are looking for package descriptions, install the ports tree and read the Makefiles. A lynx dump of http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/i386.html seems more handy. For

Weird pkg_info behavior?

2008-09-30 Thread Slim Joe
When I invoke something like pkg_info vim*, pkg_info insists on downloading all the packages named vim*. That is, I see a bunch of vim* packages on . (present directory). Is there a way to get package info for a file not already downloaded or installed without such heavy bandwidth (just the

Tcsh does not recognize alt keys as meta

2008-09-19 Thread Slim Joe
I installed tcsh using pkg_add on OBSD i386 4.3. The problem is that tcsh doesn't recognize either left or right alt key as meta. Instead I get different accented characters such as:  (alt-backspace), f (alt-f), b (alt-b). This is true for both BSD and XTerm consoles. The alt keys work fine as