Re: pkg_add.1

2020-06-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:32:57PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 07:28:09PM -0400, sven falempin wrote: > > Dear readers, > > > > It may not be very obvious that 'dry run' mode of pkg_add > > actually downloads packages. > > It is a good feature and maybe the pkg_add man c

Re: pkg_add.1

2020-06-24 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 07:28:09PM -0400, sven falempin wrote: > Dear readers, > > It may not be very obvious that 'dry run' mode of pkg_add > actually downloads packages. > It is a good feature and maybe the pkg_add man could use an EXAMPLES > section. > hi. it might not be obvious, but it is

Re: pkg_add.1

2016-02-08 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:05:00PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 07:28:24PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:42:32AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > > > We don't recommend FTP mirrors anymore, installing a package via a > > > pipe doesn't seem to wor

Re: pkg_add.1

2016-02-08 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 07:28:24PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:42:32AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > > We don't recommend FTP mirrors anymore, installing a package via a > > pipe doesn't seem to work anymore, and packages have to be signed to > > be installed so the advice

Re: pkg_add.1

2016-02-08 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:42:32AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: >> We don't recommend FTP mirrors anymore, installing a package via a >> pipe doesn't seem to work anymore, and packages have to be signed to >> be installed

Re: pkg_add.1

2016-02-08 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:42:32AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > We don't recommend FTP mirrors anymore, installing a package via a > pipe doesn't seem to work anymore, and packages have to be signed to > be installed so the advice about miscreants is not very relevant. > > installing packages thr

Re: pkg_add.1

2016-02-07 Thread Michael McConville
joshua stein wrote: > We don't recommend FTP mirrors anymore, installing a package via a > pipe doesn't seem to work anymore, and packages have to be signed to > be installed so the advice about miscreants is not very relevant. Good catch with the FTP link. I think it's still worth mentioning tha