From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 24 11:17:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107E337B401; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CB843E81; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17XQhf-0002yH-0U; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:17:39 +0100 Message-ID: <5iQKrFB97uP9EwxH@caomhin.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:16:29 +0100 To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target? References: <1027534025.3d3eecc9e656e@netmail.pipex.net> In-Reply-To: <1027534025.3d3eecc9e656e@netmail.pipex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Someone, quite probably , once wrote: > I want to install the latest version of XFree86-4. > >I've already tried going via the ports an hour ago, which failed with lots of >syntax errors. I do not want to bother with the port, and would like to install >via a package. > >However, pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails with "File not available" whilst attempting >to fetch the package from some FreeBSD mirror. > >How do I tell pkg_add to try somewhere else? You can give it an actual location if you like: # pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/x11/ XFree86-4 Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message