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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:34:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      lreid@okstate.edu
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   4.5 packages not on mirrors?
Message-ID:  <522102509.1032111295699.JavaMail.root@dexter.okstate.edu>

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Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE in my lab I operate, and I've noticed that for the past few weeks the packages-4.5-release directory is not on the i386 tree, making package addition an understandable headache. Why is it gone? When will it be back?

I am distributing via NFS a separate package database and usr/local to the slave machines on the network to keep their packages isolated from the host system. This brings another question- when using pkg_add with -p <prefix> and the environment DBDIR=<dbdir>, why does pkg_add not use those values when installing dependencies? it's a complete pain in the ass to look up dependencies for dependencies for dependencies for dependencies... of packages I want to install. Is this intentional? Should I run in slave and master modes?

here's my example filesystem for anyone who can help-

fstab:
....
/dev/ad0s1f     /usr/export/usr.local
/dev/ad0sig

-thanks much

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