Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:05:40 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Cc: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add problem Message-ID: <20050930170540.GB59432@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <08C61163-6D0C-4C30-ABC7-F5999FAD8E1B@redry.net> References: <AD7E3186-659A-48C2-9B84-5AE6BB752064@redry.net> <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> <08C61163-6D0C-4C30-ABC7-F5999FAD8E1B@redry.net>
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--NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote: > On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote: >=20 > >Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be =20 > >to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you =20 > >tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist =20 > >under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would =20 > >have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for =20 > >packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment =20 > >variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the =20 > >archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the =20 > >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 >=20 > Ok thanks. I have done this... > setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/=20 > packages-5-stable/ > and im still getting the same error. Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you changed the environment variable. > I have checked the ftp site and =20 > its there. So im not sure what I need to do? Kris --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDPXBkWry0BWjoQKURAuYVAKDM7IQTjPMAF3FOiiXbqztvlrL29ACgwHZ1 BAFkhv5pq0pPK5Yp5/cA6c8= =Lk0/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--
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