On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 04:03:14PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > With the advances of pkg_add, are there any plans to add pseudo-packages ? > Like pkg_add [xfce4 | gnome | kde ] ? > With the pseudo-package mainly being a meta package containing a package > list with elements (individual packages) that can be commented / > uncommented ? Should make installs easier. > (I wonder, checked the archives of ports@, but didn't see any ...) > > Second item: We read again and again about 'unavailable' packages; the > difficulties to identify which package exactly is called what (pkg_add > likes that). > Any plans here to store and *update* a local list of the packages on the > mirrors and from there simplify selection and install instead of ftp and > then pipe to pkg_add or shooting into the dark with pkg_add ? > Here something like > cat pkg_list | grep kde > tobeinstall.ed > pkg_add -v < tobeinstall.ed > comes into mind. > As well as a CLI-tool to do so; ncurses-based eventually, similar to > ntsysv (for those who know that) > > Sorry, if either or both are known and implemented. There was nothing like > this in the FAQ. > > Uwe >
I myself, download the index.txt from the package mirror add this to my .profile. Simplifies thing a LOT. PKG_PATH='ftp://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386' export PKG_PATH function ipkg { sudo pkg_add -v ${PKG_PATH}/$1; } function fpkg { grep $1 ${HOME}/index.txt; }
