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Reviewed by dillo and rillig.
Some minor fixes while I am here. Bump date.
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wiz 2005-05-06 22:45:56 +00:00
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usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/pkg_add.1
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.\" $NetBSD: pkg_add.1,v 1.57 2005/02/26 14:09:57 grant Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pkg_add.1,v 1.58 2005/05/06 22:45:56 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" FreeBSD install - a package for the installation and maintenance
.\" of non-core utilities.
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)pkg_add.1
.\"
.Dd February 4, 2005
.Dd May 7, 2005
.Dt PKG_ADD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ will try to install binary packages listed in dependencies list.
.Pp
You can specify a compiled binary package explicitly on the command line.
.Bd -literal
# pkg_add /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/tcsh-6.10.00.tgz
# pkg_add /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/tcsh-6.14.00.tgz
.Ed
.Pp
If you omit the version number,
@ -596,16 +596,41 @@ emits more messages to terminal.
# pkg_add -v /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/unzip
.Ed
.Pp
You can grab a compiled binary package from remote location, by specifying
You can grab a compiled binary package from remote location by specifying
a URL.
The URL can be put into an environment variable,
.Ev PKG_PATH .
.Bd -literal
# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/All/mozilla-1.7.3nb2.tgz
# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/All/firefox-1.0.3.tgz
# export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/All
# pkg_add -v mozilla
# pkg_add -v firefox
.Ed
.Pp
Over time, as problems are found in packages, they will be moved
from the
.Pa All
subdirectory into the
.Pa vulnerable
subdirectory.
If you want to accept vulnerable packages by default
(and know what you are doing),
you can add the
.Pa vulnerable
directory to your
.Ev PKG_PATH
like this:
.Bd -literal
# export PKG_PATH="ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/All;ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/vulnerable"
.Ed
.Pp
(The quotes are needed because semicolon
.Pq Sq \&;
is a shell meta-character.)
If you do this, consider installing and using the
.Pa security/audit-packages
package and running it after every
.Nm .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pkg_admin 1 ,
.Xr pkg_create 1 ,
@ -642,6 +667,6 @@ invocations due to exec argument-space limitations--this depends on the
value returned by
.Fn sysconf _SC_ARG_MAX ) .
.Pp
Pkg upgrading needs a lot more work to be really universal.
Package upgrading needs a lot more work to be really universal.
.Pp
Sure to be others.