Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:00:36 +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: <87bq1bigrf.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <87y74fjvrl.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:51:10 %2B0300") 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> <87y74fjvrl.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:51:10 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > 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. Nevermind, that was easy. I just opened a PR for it...
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