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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hat off!!
Date: 6 Sep 1995 01:08:47 +0200
Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 2.2-current Usenet Site
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References: <427nlp$9c1@parsifal.nando.net> <429mv4$7on@i-2000.com> <429r1b$8un@gryphon.phoenix.net>
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In article <429r1b$8un@gryphon.phoenix.net>,
Paul Flores <pflores@phoenix.net> wrote:
> How bout a pkg_manage that works via ftp? That would be truley slick for
> those of us lacking cd-rom cabability...
It was added a little before 2.0.5 so it should already for work pkg_add,
pkg_info and friends :
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revision 1.8
date: 1995/04/26 15:08:20; author: jkh; state: Exp; lines: +200 -8
Add code for dealing with URLs.
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Make pkg_info URL aware (and also make it use the PKG_PATH properly, like
everyone else). Try this:
pkg_info ftp://freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/all/gmake-3.73.tgz
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[ Cc: to Paul ]
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