From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 22:27:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A15137B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 22:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8965D36; Fri, 4 May 2001 00:27:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 00:27:05 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010504002030.U25642@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 4 May 2001, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: :ftp2, and frob the Makefile. pkg_add would have likely required me to :find and download the package file manually, or frob some arguments to it :that I can never quite manage to understand. PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-current/\ Latest/ pkg_add -r or something close, if you're not using -current, or i386. I do have to say that I figured out the option from the manpage, and the syntax with strings(1). strings(1) output is not very good documentation. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message