pkg outside jail errors “unrecognized option”

Antonio Huete Jiménez tuxillo at quantumachine.net
Thu Nov 14 02:15:46 PST 2019


Hi,

pkg does not support --jail option in DragonFly BSD. However we do  
support the --chroot option. The jail option shouldn't appear in the  
manpage, not sure how we can conditionalize it to not show up.

Regards,
Antonio Huete

qab smith <qabulin at gmail.com> escribió:

> When trying to install packages from outside of a jail, I get an  
> error message:
>
> # pkg --jail 1 install openjdk8
> pkg: unrecognized option `--jail'
> pkg: unknown command: 1
>
> For more information on available commands and options see 'pkg help'.
>
> However, when I read the man page for pkg, it clearly shows an  
> option for “--jail”.  Is this or isn’t this an option?  What could I  
> be missing that is causing this to not work?
> +++
> 5.6-RELEASE DragonFly v5.6.2.6.g1e4c0-RELEASE






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