From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 18:57:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1536316A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEC2C43D3F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:57:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@howitsdone.net) Received: from unknown (HELO gigaping.gigaping) (cadwalad3r@sbcglobal.net@69.153.226.226 with plain) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 18:57:01 -0000 From: Richard Cadwalader To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:55:43 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200501050830.36906.richard@howitsdone.net> <200501050943.11320.richard@howitsdone.net> <84dead72050106094231b43492@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead72050106094231b43492@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501061255.47218.richard@howitsdone.net> Subject: Re: pkg_add looking in the wrong place X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:57:04 -0000 I don't mean to sound like a moron, I know that certainly most of you folks on this mailing list have enough to do without holding my hand, but where does one set the environment variables? I cvsup'd ports and the src tree, and I've installed stuff, it's just now that I am having trouble...I install things by going to the ftp site and getting the packages I need, but isn't there some config file somewhere that tells pkg_add where to go? the output: # sysctl kern.osreldate kern.osreldate: 503101 On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > gigaping# uname -a > > FreeBSD gigaping.gigaping 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 3 > > 11:25:50CST 2005 > > gigaping@gigaping.gigaping:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GIGAPING i386 > > gigaping# > > Please check that you don't have environment > variables PACKAGESITE or PACKAGEROOT set. > > If these are not set, please check the output of 'sysctl > kern.osreldate'. This should be a number between > 503000 and 599000 if you are running 5.3-STABLE. > > If not, it is likely that your system may not have been > updated using the recommended upgrade procedure in the > Handbook. > > [snip] > > > what does all that mean up there? > > There is an explanation of uname's output in its manual > page (man uname). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Richard Cadwalader