From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 12:57: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A38037B417 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6756 invoked by uid 100); 15 Nov 2001 20:56:57 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15348.11289.547996.682597@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:56:57 -0600 To: Eric (by way of Eric ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping a local collection of port sources In-Reply-To: <82113599@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Eric (by way of Eric ) types: > I can't find out how tell the ports system to look at a local directory > rather than the CD. >... > This seems simple in theory, and I'm sure it's nothin new, but I'm missing > something. Any ideas? RTFM: Environment The value of the PKG_PATH is used if a given package can't be found. The environment variable should be a series of entries separated by colons. Each entry consists of a directory name. The current directory may be indicated implicitly by an empty directory name, or explicitly by a sin- gle period. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message