Port Version via pkg_add

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Jan 4 23:58:20 PST 2008


On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> Jason C. Wells wrote:
>> How does pkg_add determine what version of a port to add when
>> 'pkg_add -Kr' is used?  How can I make pkg_add use 6.3 packages  
>> instead of 6.2?
>
> Thank you for the previous replies.  Now for a follow up.  How do I  
> make pkg_add -K keep all dependencies as well as the target package  
> listed on the command line?
>
> For example:
>
> pkg_add -Kr gnash-0.8.1.tbz
>
> ... keeps only gnash and none of the other packages that get  
> downloaded.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason C. Wells

Please see my earlier post (November / December on hackers@?) where I  
provided a really simple pkg_add(1) patch that keeps all packages  
fetched with -K.
-Garrett


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