From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 19:43:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A4E37B402 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7]) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16WUbj-0004Wy-00; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:43:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:43:22 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Subject: Re: Change default ftp site for pkg_add In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020131224158.N52197-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus sayeth the previous author: >Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:51:06 -0500 >From: Joe & Fhe Barbish >To: FBSD >Subject: Change default ftp site for pkg_add > >How do I tell pkg_add to use a different default ftp site. > > Look in the /etc/make.conf file (or cp /etc/defaults/make.conf /etc/make.conf and edit that) for the lines: # If you want your port fetches to go somewhere else than the default # (specified below) in case the distfile/patchfile was not found, # uncomment this and change it to a location nearest you. (Don't # remove the "/${DIST_SUBDIR}/" part.) # MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ # # If you want your port fetches to check the above site first (before # the MASTER_SITES specified in the port Makefiles), uncomment the # line below. You can also change the right side to point to wherever # you want. # MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} Change accordingly. The above is reason #2 why I like FreeBSD. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message