From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 18:28:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AEF16A41A for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:28:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D3713C4B4 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:28:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from rigel.publicis-usa.com ([167.246.36.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l77ISfo6080392 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <539c60b90708071015t611011cft8d69e37597f71a80@mail.gmail.com> <20070807173936.GA55968@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070807173936.GA55968@rot26.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708071328.34856.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.6 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_XBL, RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on pollux.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: pkg_add -r from 6-stable instead of 6.2-release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:28:46 -0000 On Tuesday 07 August 2007 12:39:36 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:15:11AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > occasionally I feel like a total idiot asking a really dumb question, > > but I'm pretty much out of ideas and I've wasted hours messing with > > PKGROOT, changing the 'options' in sysinstall, and I can't seem to get > > things I can see right in 6-stable. I'd just fetch it myself, but it > > has about 100 dependancies... > > See pkg_add(1). PACKAGESITE is probably what you want. > > Kris ive used PACKAGESITE recently as well, i used it like this: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ you have to specify it as far as the directory you want it to pull the files from. ../All/ would also be acceptable. now that im about to click send, i actually cant recall if i specified the trailing slash or not... so be prepared to reset and try again. good luck, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com