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Update man page to descripe the special '-' filename meaning 'read from stdin' and better describe the behaviour when the base directory for packages cannot be intuited from the filename passed on the command line.
Matthew Seaman committed 12 years ago
commit 9ab45e071caa506bba615082ef57da2a12d922cc
parent de0ce87
1 file changed +29 -1
modified pkg/pkg-add.8
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\"     @(#)pkg.8

.\" $FreeBSD$

.\"
- 
.Dd March 25, 2013
+ 
.Dd September 22, 2013

.Dt PKG-ADD 8

.Os

.Sh NAME
@@ -36,6 +36,34 @@ When installing from a remote source you need to specify
the protocol to use when fetching the package.

.Pp

Currently supported protocols are FTP, HTTP and HTTPS.
+ 
.Pp
+ 
Otherwise,
+ 
.Nm
+ 
will read the file named on the command line.
+ 
.Pp
+ 
If this is a regular file, and the package to be installed has
+ 
unmet dependencies,
+ 
.Nm
+ 
will search the directory containing
+ 
.Ar pkg-name
+ 
for suitable pkg archive files to fulfil those dependencies.
+ 
If
+ 
.Ar pkg-name
+ 
is literally
+ 
.Pa -
+ 
then it will read the package data from stdin.
+ 
.Nm
+ 
will automatically detect and unpack most common compression formats
+ 
based on the content of the data stream it reads, ignoring any
+ 
extension the filename may have.
+ 
.Pp
+ 
If this involves reading from a pipe (including
+ 
.Pa stdin ) ,
+ 
fifo, socket or some other non-regular form of input stream then
+ 
.Nm
+ 
will immediately emit an error if
+ 
.Ar pkg-name
+ 
has unmet dependencies.

.Sh OPTIONS

The following options are supported by

.Nm :