Brian C. Grayson wrote:
>   I'd also suggest adding a few notes on how to share /usr/pkg
> over NFS, and how to set it up so that you can install package
> A on machine X, and have machine Y notice that it's been
> installed into the shared /usr/pkg.  My ugly hack was to set up
> two symlinks on all the machines:
> /usr/pkg --symlink-> /usr/local (which was already NFS-shared),
> and /var/db/pkg --symlink-> /usr/pkg/pkg.db,
> but I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do this.

This may be a stupid question but ... if your /usr/pkg is NFS
mounted, why do you need to register the package installations
on the clients?

>   My quick hack has been, edit I's Makefile and change the
> dependence to be on H 1.3.  Nothing has broken -- yet.  :)

>  There isn't currently any way to say ``any version from 1.3
>through 1.5'' or ``version 1.3 or later'' is there?  It'd be
>handy in this situation.

Ruibiao Qiu wrote:
> What I did is to ``pkg_delete -f I-1.3".  This seems to work for
> me.

I must admit I used `pkg_delete -f`.  Packages that were dependent
on the previous version can't find the file to delete their
dependency when you remove them, but I haven't have any problems
so far.

It would be nice to say 'version 1.3 or later' but I wonder how
you will know which versions will or won't be compatible in the
future!

J

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