On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:43:52PM -0500, Peter wrote: > I am scripting (sh) some package installs on an updated (today) OpenBSD > 4.0-STABLE system and I am getting errors even when the pkg_add command > ultimately succeeds and installs the packages. > > The shell script in question and sample output: > > export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/ > for i in bash \ > wget > do > pkg_add $i > done
And the point is? you can just do a pkg_add bash wget > > Error from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/: > Unknwn command. > wget-1.10.2p0 complete This is a warning from ftp.openbsd.org because it doesn't understand EPSV or something, just ignore it. > > BTW, I am also having trouble specifying a package whose name contains > version numbers like: > > cvsup-16.1h-no_x11 > > I would rather include this in my for loop as: > > cvsup-*-no_x11 > > My attempts to escape the glob character have been futile ("cannot > resolve"): > > cvsup-\*-no_x11 > > and putting the $i in double quotes doesn't help. > > Thanks for any pointers. > > PM > > pkg_add -i <list of packages> (interactive only) or grab $PKG_PATH/index.txt, grep whatever you need and feed it to pkg_add. Tobiasu
