The Handbook doc on "pkg" is badly out of date

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Wed Jan 15 21:02:53 UTC 2014


On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> The mysterious messages were due to a a default configuration file which I think is not installed with the latest version of pkg.  

It was in the "pkg" I got this morning, which reminded me of this sad workflow.

> I switched a 9.2 system over to pkg a couple of days ago, and did what the Handbook says--really, just install pkg and run pkg2ng--and did not see those messages.


You might have this backwards. I'm pretty sure that the handbook shows the old configuration information, and the Wiki shows the new.

--Paul Hoffman


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