[HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng

Alex Keda admin at lissyara.su
Fri Oct 19 15:16:56 UTC 2012


On 19.10.2012 19:10, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> On 19/10/2012 15:39, Alex Keda wrote:
>> On 10.10.2012 17:44, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> If you are using the ports tree on a FreeBSD current setup, then you are
>>> concerned by the announce.
>>>
>>> As nvidia-drivers has been fixed and is now properly working with pkgng, the
>>> ports tree as been switch by default to use pkgng on FreeBSD Current based on
>>> version >= 1000017 which was the version when we tested the switch code.
>>>
>>> Make sure to read UPDATING (from ports) to correctly migrate your system or find
>>> instruction to make your system still running with legacy pkg_install tools.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Bapt
>>>
>> pkg command does not have key for list options - no autocompletions
>>
>> for example, for service command, I use
>> complete service        'n/*/`service -l`/'
>> in .cshrc
>>
>> what I can use for pkg command?
> 
> horrible but working example
> pkg help 2>&1 | sed -e '1,/Commands supported:/d ; /For more information
> on the different commands/,$d; s/^   *// ; s/  .*.*$// ;/^$/d'
> 
> There's bound to be better ways, I was just bored enough to knock this up.
> note s/^    *//   is a tab, while s/  .*.*$// is 2 spaces
> dont think our sed has any other way to express tab other than an actual
> tab (ctrl-v then tab on the command line)

it's crazy =)
may be add -l options?


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