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On Sunday, 1 November 2020 12:53, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 12:23:44PM +0000, Laura Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > As far as I can tell from the docs, only pkg_info supports spec style ?
> > I am trying to script an OpenBSD setup and as part of that certain packages
> > need to be installed. For most packages that is not a problem, however, for
> > example, with gnupg, there are two versions in the 6.8 repo :
> > gnupg-1.4.23p4.tgz
> > gnupg-2.2.23p0.tgz
> > I cannot seem to find a way to tell pkg_add to install >=2 (or better
> > still, install "the latest" version).
>
> "Better still" to be discussed.
>
> Newer is not always better, especially when some things stop working and
> stuff like that.
>
> It's generally considered that scripting is meant to give you a reliable
> system...
>
> > Any ideas ?
>
> You should read pkg_add(1) more closely.
>
> pkg_add also understands ‘stems’, that is, package names without any
> version specification. For instance, with ‘pkg_add kdelibs’, pkg_add
> will look in the current directory (or the PKG_PATH) for a kdelibs
> package.
>
> pkg_add may ask questions in interactive mode, or error out otherwise.
> Interactive mode is the default on a tty, see options -I/i.
>
> For instance ‘pkg_add screen’ is ambiguous as it matches screen-4.03p6
> and screen-4.03p6-shm.
>
> To avoid ambiguities, pkg_add supports ‘stems with flavors’, that is, a
> stem separated from flavors with a double dash. For instance, the
> previous ambiguity could be resolved by using ‘pkg_add screen--’ (matches
> only the empty flavor) or ‘pkg_add screen--shm’ (matches only the shm
> flavor).
>
> There is also an ambiguity related to ports with multiple branches. For
> instance ‘pkg_add python’ is ambiguous, as there are several versions of
> python in the ports tree. So is ‘pkg_add postfix’. The special form
> ‘pkgname%branch’ can be used to restrict matches to a branch matching the
> pkgpath(7).
>
> The above ambiguities can be resolved using ‘pkg_add postfix%stable’ and
> ‘pkg_add python%3.4’, respectively.
>
> stuff like pkg_add gnupg%gnupg and pkg_add gnupg%gnupg2
> in 6.8, with possibly a bit more to take care of flavors as well.
>
> (note that pkg_info -z will give you the exact specs you want)
I did actually try "pkg_add gnupg%2" but pkg_add didn't like that. Will go try
"pkg_add gnupg%gnupg2" instead....
