Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:27:33 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: "FBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Change default ftp site for pkg_add Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOMEDNCGAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020131231705.GC39396@dan.emsphone.com>
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I see the man page on my pc is really different than
what is on the FBSD.org web site. So the web site man
page talks about the environment variable PACKAGEROOT
but as usual it does not say anything about where or
how to set this environment variable.
How do I set this environment variable?
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 6:17 PM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
Cc: FBSD
Subject: Re: Change default ftp site for pkg_add
In the last episode (Jan 31), Joe & Fhe Barbish said:
> Dan wrote:
> > In the last episode (Jan 31), Joe & Fhe Barbish said:
> > > How do I tell pkg_add to use a different default ftp site.
> >
> > man pkg_add, in the ENVIRONMENT section.
>
> I do not see anything in man page environment section
> that talks about changing the default ftp location.
> I read the man page first before posting question and
> I have reread it and I still see nothing about ftp location.
Please don't top post.
From the pkg_add manpage, ENVIRONMENT section:
The environment variable PACKAGEROOT specifies an alternate location
for
pkg_add to fetch from. The fetch URL is built using this environment
variable and the automatic directory logic that pkg_add uses when
the -r
option is invoked. An example setting would be
"ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org".
The environment variable PACKAGESITE specifies an alternate location
for
pkg_add to fetch from. This variable subverts the automatic directory
logic that pkg_add uses when the -r option is invoked. Thus it should
be
a complete URL to the remote package file(s).
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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