Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:57:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Johnson" <cjohnson@camelot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Req feedback re: change in pkg_add and sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971129174828.14734A-100000@cygnet.camelot.com>
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I must say that I really enjoy the "ports" and "packages" that FreeBSD uses. There is one place where the user interface could be a little bit better, maybe there is something in the documentation that would help that I've missed but the problem is: How do you know what the name of the package is? Right now, the process I go through for installing a package looks something like: cd /usr/ports make search key=kermit pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.5/All/kermit-6.0.192.tgz wait for the failure because while kermit is a port, it is not a package. cd comms/kermit make make install make package Install package on the 8 or 9 other machines that need that package. Looking through the source for pkg_add, I don't see anyplace where you can set an enviornment variable or where it reads from a configuration file as to where to get packages over the network. So the two things I'm looking for are: 1) a config file or environment variable for pkg_add which will give a default base URL 2) that sysinstall would install INDEX into /var/db/pkg to allow for easy searchs. Thanks, Chris P.S. if (1) sounds like a good Idea, I'll submit diffs for it later this week.
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