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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:07:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
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Subject: Re: pkg_fetch broken on 4.6 stable?
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen L. Palmer wrote:

> I sent this to the list about a week ago.  The only response so far, was from
> someone else also having directory path issues with pkg_fetch.  Is this
> someting documented somewhere? If so, would someone please send me a pointer
> on how to correct this behaviour?
>
> Stephen L. Palmer
>
>
> ========================================================
> It seems that 'portupgrade -P' won't ever get a package, so it builds from
> source every time.
>
> On investigation, it seems that pkg_fetch is getting the directory path
> wrong.
>
> In the example below, the correct path would have included
> 'packages-4-stable', not 'packages-4.6-stable', at least that's how the
> directory structure on the ftp sites are.

    You can fix this by editing /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf and
inserting the following environment variable setting:

    ENV['PACKAGES'] ||= '/export/freebsd/packages-4-stable'

    You'll notice that the default setting (shown in a comment) is messed
up in precisely the way you mention.

-- 
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer                   (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
                 Turning coffee into software since 1990.


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