Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:51:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rob Lytle <jan6146@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war Message-ID: <87y74fjvrl.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750807040531k27938f0ay9bd9923ec57f3f1@mail.gmail.com> (Paul B. Mahol's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:31:51 %2B0200") References: <784966050807022128g6a6ebfebtc1f57c0da66779bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080703215537.6F3114504E@ptavv.es.net> <784966050807032126m69eedb98nf0ccaed548fc96ef@mail.gmail.com> <868wwhhmms.fsf@ds4.des.no> <486E14F2.3060906@psg.com> <3a142e750807040531k27938f0ay9bd9923ec57f3f1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:31:51 +0200, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/4/08, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote: >>> This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you >>> can install with 'pkg_add -r'. You can install them from any FTP >>> mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror: >> >> why isn't this stuff in the docs? oh, it is! silly me. is the problem >> that there are just too much doc or two little reading? >> >> </sarcasm> > > It is in pkg_add(1), If you are talking about handbook only > PACKAGESITE is documented: should get fixed. Hi Paul, Can you please open a docs/* problem report for this? Feel free to add `keramida' to the `X-GNATS-Notify:' header. I'll try to add at least a reference to pkg_add(1) to read more about the `PACKAGEROOT' environment variable. I'm just getting back from a 8-10 day period of ${offline_world} stuff, but it would be a shame to lose the opportunity to document this, because it got hidden in the `noise' of the mailing lists.
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