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| ID | Category | Severity | Reproducibility | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||
| 0002287 | [pkg_get] regular use | feature | always | 2007-07-14 07:22 | 2009-02-27 02:19 | ||
| Reporter | obx | View Status | public | ||||
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| Priority | normal | Resolution | not fixable | ||||
| Status | closed | ||||||
| Summary | 0002287: naming inconsistency, stop guessing package names (eg: OpenSSL) | ||||||
| Description |
It would be a BIG useability improvement if pkg-add accepted program name, package name, and name from \'pkg-get -a\' (typically, binary name) without distinction. Incidentally, couldn\'t we enforce better consistency? for example, given: ----------------------- application CSWossl openssl - The Open Source toolkit for SSL and TLS all these 3 would work: ----------------------- pkg-add -i openssl pkg-add -i ossl pkg-add -i CSWossl |
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Implementation of automagic pkg name resolution is trivial: - first try as specified - else, if name matches a name from `pkg-get -a | awk \'{print $1}\'` , use corresponding package - else, if package given as CSWxyzt, strip leading 3 chars \'CSW\' and re-try just \'xyzt\' When matching names, try case INsensitive matches. If more than one name matches: - in interactive, ask which one - with -f, exit with both/all potential matches printed in pkginfo format Thank you! |
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(0005388) philadmin (viewer) 2008-11-13 20:49 |
I dont think it is reasonable to "guess" at having "ossl" work,in your example. but I do think it is reasonable to have it try for the PKGxxx name. I intend to add that functionality in some future release. possibly only the 4.0 version. current beta is on http://mirrors.opencsw.org/testing [^] I think. |
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(0005399) dam (administrator) 2008-11-14 13:38 |
Actually http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing [^] |
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(0005575) phil (manager) 2009-02-27 02:19 |
Wow. old bug. And ambigously worded. I cant change the "summary" line fairly, so I'm going to close this one, and open a more focused one. I've already linked the two together i think: to bugid 3453 Some comments on close: first of all, MY program is "pkg-get", not pkgadd. I cant change the behaviour of pkgadd; that's sun's! :-) secondly; the pkg-get handling of "program name" is quite consistent. Output of "pkg-get -a" (and pkg-get -c) shows that name, and that is exactly what pkg-get accepts. Now, on the other hand, the pkgadd internal database "name".. the CSWxxxx, has some restrictions on it. It WOULD be nice if pkg-get accepted that name as well. and I intend to make it do so at some point, but it's low priority. I'm replacing this with a more cleanly named bug, to help me remember more easily in the future. |
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