Peter(pmatulis@sympatico.ca) on 2007.03.09 02:56:07 +0000:

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> but I have found that if a package is dubiously named (such as "db") then it

> hangs with:

>

> "Ambiguous: db could be db-3.1.17p6 db-4.2.52p8"

There is nothing dubious about it. There are simply two versions of "db"

available. pkg_add simply does not guess what you want it to do.
> Choose one package

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>          0:

>          1: db-3.1.17p6

>          2: db-4.2.52p8

> Your choice:

You found out whats discribed in the manpage:
     In case of ambiguities, for instance: pkg_add screen (matches

     screen-4.02 and screen-4.02-static), pkg_add will error out, unless it

     is invoked in interactive mode (option -i).
> Any ideas?
Answer with 0, 1 or 2?
You could also specify the version you want in the pkg_add invocation:
  pkg_add db-4.2.52p8
/B.

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Sebastian Benoit