From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 16:00:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B9F16A420 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:00:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: from luke.segpub.com.au (luke.segpub.com.au [64.49.254.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8175B43D5C for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:00:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: (qmail 23302 invoked by uid 89); 1 Oct 2005 02:00:21 +1000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 23138, pid: 23162, t: 3.0550s scanners: clamav: 0.86.1/m:33/d:984 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.34?) (212.2.178.69) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2005 02:00:17 +1000 In-Reply-To: <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> References: <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <08C61163-6D0C-4C30-ABC7-F5999FAD8E1B@redry.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: eoghan Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:00:15 +0100 To: Josh Ockert X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on luke.segpub.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add problem 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: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:00:35 -0000 On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote: > Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be > to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you > tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist > under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would > have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for > packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment > variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the > archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the > man page. > > > My recommendation would be: > o Set PACKAGESITE to: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ > o pkg_add -rf portupgrade > o portupgrade -arfP Ok thanks. I have done this... setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ packages-5-stable/ and im still getting the same error. I have checked the ftp site and its there. So im not sure what I need to do? Eoghan