Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:34 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add -r from 6-stable instead of 6.2-release Message-ID: <200708071328.34856.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070807173936.GA55968@rot26.obsecurity.org> References: <539c60b90708071015t611011cft8d69e37597f71a80@mail.gmail.com> <20070807173936.GA55968@rot26.obsecurity.org>
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On Tuesday 07 August 2007 12:39:36 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:15:11AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > occasionally I feel like a total idiot asking a really dumb question, > > but I'm pretty much out of ideas and I've wasted hours messing with > > PKGROOT, changing the 'options' in sysinstall, and I can't seem to get > > things I can see right in 6-stable. I'd just fetch it myself, but it > > has about 100 dependancies... > > See pkg_add(1). PACKAGESITE is probably what you want. > > Kris ive used PACKAGESITE recently as well, i used it like this: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ you have to specify it as far as the directory you want it to pull the files from. ../All/ would also be acceptable. now that im about to click send, i actually cant recall if i specified the trailing slash or not... so be prepared to reset and try again. good luck, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com
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