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authorMarco S Hyman <marc@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-15 19:30:32 +0000
committerMarco S Hyman <marc@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-15 19:30:32 +0000
commitdb8e8b3b59a83bda3f0338c57b6168c22ce8df85 (patch)
treea540d1442ce6f82fc7855aea83b95bd6240e4f2d
parentb2823764b77db911071534ee76efdf1ddb3626e0 (diff)
add note that pkg_add is not to be used for system distribution files.
I'd like to reference some other doc/man page... any ideas as to what?
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/pkg_add.19
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/pkg_add.1 b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/pkg_add.1
index fa790017481..58cc320a367 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/pkg_add.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/pkg_add.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pkg_add.1,v 1.24 2000/07/18 22:02:52 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pkg_add.1,v 1.25 2000/10/15 19:30:31 marc Exp $
.\"
.\" FreeBSD install - a package for the installation and maintainance
.\" of non-core utilities.
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ FTP site or on the official
CD.
These packages are provided as a convenience for quickly installing software
that would otherwise need to be built manually.
+.Bd -filled -offset indent
+.Em Note :
+System distribution files, e.g. base28.tgz, comp28.tgz, etc., are
+.Em not
+packages and may not be installed using
+.Nm pkg_add .
+.Ed
.Pp
Package names may be specified as filenames (which normally consist of the
package name itself plus the