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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-11-06 18:20:05 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-11-06 18:20:05 +0000
commit602e8ed5e824ee0c42b2458c48b66a82d97eb319 (patch)
treec3f26b39d3f7a521da3b98f76b1afac26a3ea420
parentefceb724cc8f4f418e9e8f234a7b9cc2a97038a5 (diff)
Tell people to set PKG_PATH for pkg_add - to handle dependencies.
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.18
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1 b/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1
index 03c4a239c32..633145ce1b9 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pkg_add.1,v 1.2 2003/10/26 10:33:24 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pkg_add.1,v 1.3 2003/11/06 18:20:04 espie Exp $
.\"
.\" FreeBSD install - a package for the installation and maintenance
.\" of non-core utilities.
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ as a package name causes
to read from the standard input.
.Pp
Alternatively, it is possible to add packages interactively from within
-the ftp client.
+the ftp client,
+in which case setting
+.Ev PKG_PATH
+correctly will be necessary for any dependency to be found out and retrieved
+the same way.
For example, the following works:
.Bd -literal
$ ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.7/packages/i386/