Question about packages installed via `pkg_add -r`

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 5 March 2011 20:14, Yue Wu <vanopen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:02:47PM -0500, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 5 March 2011 20:00, Yue Wu <vanopen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello, sorry for poor English, I will try to explan clearer with my
>> > best.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 04:48:17PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:04:36PM +0800, Yue Wu wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I'm trying to use package instead of ports these day, but a few
>> >> > questions have:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1. How to reserve packages that fetched via `pkg_add -r`?
>> >> >
>> >> > 2. How to know if there are updates for packages, and how to update?
>> >>
>> >> For (1), do you mean 'preserve', as in save a copy?  If so, then
>> >> 'portmaster -b [...]' will save a backup copy of installed packages.
>> >
>> > Yes, I mean 'preserve'. I've maned portmaster, seems -b is for a
>> > installed package, so it will preserve it by packing up the files from a
>> > installed package, why not preserve it just when fetching with `pkg_add
>> > -r`? I think it's the best way, I don't like the portmaster way to do it
>> > after.
>>
>> from man 1 pkg_add:
>>
>>      -K, --keep
>>              Keep any downloaded package in PKGDIR if it is defined or in cur-
>>              rent directory by default.
>>
>
> Thanks, sorry for no attentively reading ;p
>
> Another question arises after checking the pkg 'pkg_add' saves, why the
> pkg doesn't have a version appended to its name, it's hard to know the
> version the pkg downloaded...

Without digging in too deeply (I use ports, so I'm not the
_most_ knowledgeable on packages) I believe it has to
do with the fact that the packages are symlinked to non-
versioned names on the distribution server(s), probably
to simplify fetching.  The packages themselves should
have the version information in their metadata somewhere,
which might be possible to rename via script.

I apologise if that isn't helpful.

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