ports/113393: pkg_add should have a command line option synonmous with PACKAGESITE environment variable

[Jo Rhett]

>Number:         113393
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       pkg_add should have a command line option synonmous with PACKAGESITE environment variable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 05 22:20:03 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jo Rhett
>Release:        6.2
>Organization:
Silicon Valley Colocation, Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:41:06 UTC 2007     root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
On May 9, 2007, at 5:07 AM, Clement Laforet wrote:
pkg_add really needs a command line option instead of only using the
environment variables...

"pkg_add -r http://my.freebsd-repo.com/packages/All/my_packages-1.0.tbz"
works fine ;-)

The behavior is not identical.  For example, this works only for a single package.

/usr/sbin/pkg_add -r http://my.location/packages/{pkgname}

This works for multiple packages:

export PACKAGESITE=http://my.location/packages/
/usr/sbin/pkg_add -r {pkgname} {pkgname2}

Also, the former will not resolve dependancies properly (it alters the path), whereas the latter will.

In short, they are not synonymous.  A command line option which is synonymous with the environment variable would be very useful in scripts/cfengine/etc.

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to run a single command which installs multiple packages from a single location.

-or-

Have the named package need dependancies.

>Fix:
An option which has the exact same effect as PACKAGESITE environment variable would be very useful, and should be trivial to implement.

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