On 08/19/2010 07:38 AM, Bapt wrote: > Hi, > > Now that GSoC is over a lot of good work has been done on pkg_install. > > I think it would be great to organize the way the on going work on > pkg_install > will be done, for that purpose we need someone to officially manage the work, > to > validate what will be implemented/cleanup, and distribute the work among > volunteers. > > I think this is the best way for a new pkg_install really appear. > > I'd like to contribute to the work on pkg_install, and would like to > help cocordinate the effort to prevent reinventing the wheel, and to be > ensure the code is consistent etc. > > I know there are many like minded people out there who might like to help, > please identify > yourself, either publicly or privately so we can put together a team to find > a pkg_install > replacement. >
A little late to this discussion, but what would really help with systems automation (i.e. puppet) is a way to install a package by specifying the origin like you can do with pkg_info -O (e.g. pkg_add -r -O databases/mysql51-server). I've devised a ad hoc way to do this by fetching the INDEX.bz2 for the correct arch and release and looking up the port name by the path. I then feed pkg_add -r <baseurl>/All/<portname>.tbz. This works, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to put such low details in puppet. Another thing that would help is if pkg_info -O would exit with a non-zero status if there are no packages installed with the specified origin. -- Russell A Jackson <r...@csub.edu> Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"