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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:37:37 +0100
From:      eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_add problem
Message-ID:  <1C84826E-2B8A-4756-AB89-2177F90A6714@redry.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050930170540.GB59432@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <AD7E3186-659A-48C2-9B84-5AE6BB752064@redry.net> <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> <08C61163-6D0C-4C30-ABC7-F5999FAD8E1B@redry.net> <20050930170540.GB59432@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On 30 Sep 2005, at 18:05, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you
> changed the environment variable.

i set the PACKAGESITE... then
pkg_add -r gnome2

Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ 
packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., not found, no  
access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ 
i386/packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz' by URL








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