From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 09:26:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F541065685 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from hrimail.hri.res.in (hrimail.hri.res.in [210.212.50.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CC38FC1D for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:26:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from ipc2.mri.ernet.in (unknown [192.168.3.2]) by hrimail.hri.res.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AC297E2C; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:03:20 +0530 (IST) Received: from ipc2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipc2 (Postfix) with SMTP id 24F3014C91; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:56:09 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (riemann.mri.ernet.in [192.168.3.122]) by ipc2.mri.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DDE14805; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:56:09 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6D9JlXl067610; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:49:47 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu@riemann.mri.ernet.in) Received: (from raghu@localhost) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m6D9JjYa067609; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:49:45 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu) From: "N. Raghavendra" To: perryh@pluto.rain.com In-Reply-To: <4879bdce.y5h8w8XA+d8w3XuK%perryh@pluto.rain.com> (perryh@pluto.rain.com's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:33:18 -0700") References: <48798b9d.0bgmwrViDqPyEGdk%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20080713065902.GB1773@shepherd> <4879bdce.y5h8w8XA+d8w3XuK%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Organization: Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) X-Address: Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India X-URL: http://www.mri.ernet.in/ and http://www.retrotexts.net/ X-Phone: +91 (532) 2667 509, 2667 318, 2667 578, 2567 746, 2567 747 X-Fax: +91 (532) 2667 576, 2567 748, 2567 444, 2568 036 X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0x03618806 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806 X-OpenPGP-Public-Key-Available-At: http://www.keyserver.net/ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:49:45 +0530 Message-ID: <86prpita32.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PACKAGESITE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "N. Raghavendra" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:26:18 -0000 At 2008-07-13T01:33:18-07:00, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > IOW I want the equivalent of specifying the current directory, > followed by the FTP site, in PKG_PATH; AFAIK, in FreeBSD, the entries in PKG_PATH must be directories, not URLs. (NetBSD and OpenBSD seem to allow URLs in that variable: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add ) Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.