svn commit: r304411 - head

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 17 17:38:59 UTC 2012


On 09/17/2012 10:30, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 17 September 2012 18:25, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Is the pkg syntax actually backwards from both portupgrade and portmaster?
> 
> From man pkg-set:
> 
> -o [<oldorigin>:<neworigin>]
> 
> So yes :)

Thanks to everyone who replied.

My point was not, "Teach me the pkg syntax for the -o option." My point
was, "It's stupid for pkg to use exactly the opposite syntax from the 2
most popular ports management tools for the same option flag."


-- 

    I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do
    something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
    I can do.
			-- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)



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