Re: installing rsync

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 07/24/15 10:27, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 7/24/15 10:09 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > Don't have the file in /etc, don't even have a /etc/pkgin directory
> > :-/. I *think* I did a 'pkg_add pkgin' a week or 2 ago, but
> > unfortunately I don't recall precisely. A bit more info I should have
> > included in the OP:
> Hmm, I don't know how this works, then.  Maybe it has a built-in
> repository path or something?
>
> Anyway, can you do a "pkgin update" and then the install?
>
> # pkgin update
> # pkgin install rsync
>
> The "pkgin update" should synchronize the pkgin database with the
> package repo (whichever one you're using).  You have to run the update
> command regularly to keep them in sync.
>
> Lewis


*Aaaaaaaahhhhh* !!!! That did it, thanks. I thought pkgin might sorta do 
the update automagically whenever it was invoked, but no matter, simple 
to do. *Booooyah* !!!!


4256EE1 # pkgin update
pkg_summary.bz2 100% 2353KB 784.4KB/s 749.6KB/s   00:03
processing remote summary 
(ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All)...
updating database: 100%
4256EE1 # pkgin install rsync
calculating dependencies... done.

nothing to upgrade.
1 packages to be installed: rsync-3.1.1nb1 (293K to download, 655K to 
install)

proceed ? [Y/n]
downloading packages...
rsync-3.1.1nb1.tgz 100%  293KB 292.7KB/s 292.7KB/s   00:01
installing packages...
installing rsync-3.1.1nb1...
===========================================================================
The following files should be created for rsync-3.1.1nb1:

        /etc/rc.d/rsyncd (m=0755)
            [/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/rsyncd]

===========================================================================
pkg_install warnings: 1, errors: 0
pkg_install error log can be found in /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log
reading local summary...
processing local summary...
updating database: 100%
marking rsync-3.1.1nb1 as non auto-removable
4256EE1 #

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