Re: pkg_add -r ? pkgsrc ? Howto install packages ??

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:33:50 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn
<rebehn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> today i decided to give DragonflyBSD another try.
> I installed from dfly-1.4.4_REL.iso w/o problems.
> I then tried to install bash with
> 
> # pkg_add -r bash
> 
> and received an error about "-r" being illegal.
> 
> However,
> 
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/packages-using.html
> 
> suggests using pkg_add -r.

DFBSD now uses pkgsrc instead of ports. For more info, read the HowTo
document:

http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/HowToPkgsrc

Pkgsrc originates at the netbsd project but has a cross platform focus
now.

-hwh